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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: Request Info Re Bus Trends & Intel 486s
- Message-ID: <id.TJRR.XR8@ferranti.com>
- Keywords: Intel 486 Bus
- Reply-To: peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <rjmartin.711191773@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> <1992Jul20.003506.23290@theus.rain.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 15:39:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul20.003506.23290@theus.rain.com> john@theus.rain.com (John Theus) writes:
- > However, Futurebus+ is a backplane bus, not a desktop bus. [...]
-
- Why is it that backplanes aren't more common on the desktop? Even for the PC
- world, they're available (under the ugly name "passive motherboard"), and until
- the IBM-PC came out they were the norm for multi-board systems (you had either
- single-board CPUs or S100 or equivalent). The only exception was the Apple II,
- and then the IBM-PC. Is it just tradition or is there something that makes a
- motherboard system inherently better?
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