Olibus

Olibus was a proprietary computer bus likely developed by Olivetti in the early 90's. It was only found on Olivetti's highest-end computers. Computers that are known to have used it are the LSX 5030, LSX 5040 and LSX 5040E.

It is unknown what cards were made for the Olibus bus other than CPU and memory cards, if anything else.

An article reads "Olivetti unveiled Pyramid-developed boards with from one-to-four MIPS high-end R4000MP CPUs which can plug into its previously announced Advanced Computing Environment LSX 5030 multiprocessor"

Since they specifically said the R4000MP CPU boards could plug into the LSX 5030, and not let's say the LSX 5015 for example, which does not have Olibus slots, it is possible that those Pyramid-developed boards were Olibus instead of say, EISA.

What does this mean for the LSX 5030, and what does it mean for Olibus as a whole? Could the LSX 5030, a normally 486 system, use MIPS R4000 CPUs instead? Was Olibus actually developed by Pyramid, or perhaps by both?

This document lists the data transfer rate of the LSX 5030's Olibus @ 160 MB/s. It is unknown if this specification was fixed, or could vary from model to model.