RE: Mini = Small ?

[Lame Brooks-G14738 <brooks.lame@motorola.com>]

The answer: officially, no, but depending on who's talking, maybe.  The word
"small" is used in the Mini PCI spec and probably shouldn't be due to
possible confusion.  I kind of think the last three different PCI form
factors are poorly named.  Here's a list of the PCI form factors I'm aware
of: 

- Standard PCI: similar to an ISA card, long and short spec, with mfgs
making cards of all dimensions in-between.
- PMC: PCI Mezzanine Card, a PCI extension of IEEE Common Mezzanine Card
(CMC) family.
- PC104+: PC104 (~3.75"x3.5" stacking ISA form factor) with stacking PCI bus
(should be PC104+PCI).
- Small PCI:  ~same form factor as Cardbus and PCMCIA cards (should be PCI
Cardbus).
- Mini PCI:  a smaller mezzanine card type form factor (should've been Mini
PMC).
- Low Profile PCI:  similar to the short card in Standard PCI, but smaller
(sounds like a mezzanine form factor; should be named something like Type C
Standard PCI card with the other two being named A and B [if ECR is
approved]).

--BrooksL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cadez Borut RDHW [mailto:b.cadez@iskratel.si]
> Sent: Wednesday, 05 January, 2000 03:38
> To: Mailing List Recipients
> Subject: Mini = Small ?
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I have a very simple question. Does the terms Small PCI and 
> Mini PCI mean
> the same thing, or not?