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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
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- Subject: Re: Request Info Re Bus Trends & Intel 486s
- Keywords: Intel 486 Bus
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.152331.23093@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 15:23:31 GMT
- References: <rjmartin.711191773@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> <1992Jul20.003506.23290@theus.rain.com> <id.TJRR.XR8@ferranti.com> <1992Jul27.013814.25878@metapro.DIALix.oz.au>
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- In article <1992Jul27.013814.25878@metapro.DIALix.oz.au>, bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche) writes:
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- | >world, they're available (under the ugly name "passive motherboard"), and until
- |
- | Yes, you can now get a PC on a card to plug into a
- | backplane, but only because the technology is now available
- | and reasonably cheap.
-
- Sort of... many of these "passive motherboards" do have the interrupt
- controller and DMA on them, and clock, and CMOS, and other stuff. Only
- the CPU is on a board. This is not the way we did it with S-100.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- It never ceases to amaze me that otherwise rational people, able to
- understand calculus, compound interest, and the income tax form, can
- continue to believe that poker is a game of chance.
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