Demystifying Technology Series

By Engineers for Engineers

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Abbott, Doug.   PCI bus demystified / by Doug Abbott.       p. cm.   Includes index.

ISBN 0-7506-7739-2

TK7895.B87A22 2004

004.6'4 dc22

2003069126

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