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Data Formats and Memory Usage

This chapter describes the memory allocations that Power Macintosh computers reserve for PCI use and defines the data formats used with PCI buses. It discusses PCI bus cycles, big-endian and little-endian addressing modes, and the storage of data in frame buffers.

Address Allocations

PCI Bus Cycles

Addressing Modes

Frame Buffers


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