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- From: rootc@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
- Subject: Re: Request Info Re Bus Trends & Intel 486s
- Message-ID: <id.3OVR.Y_3@ferranti.com>
- Keywords: Intel 486 Bus
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <1992Jul20.003506.23290@theus.rain.com> <id.TJRR.XR8@ferranti.com> <1992Jul27.163536.20755@crd.ge.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 13:33:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul27.163536.20755@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
- > If you are not upgrading the system often, a motherboard is a lot
- > cheaper and more reliable. With reliability related to number of
- > connections, having the CPU plug in on a board adds room for problems,
- > take space, adds cost, etc.
-
- Agreed, a single-board-computer is cheaper than a backplane system. But most
- PC aren't SBCs... they have serial cards and video cards and disk controller
- cards and audio cards and tape controllers and so on.
-
- > Also, a backplane normally has boards at
- > right angles to the plane, and that makes the total package larger than
- > the tiny "pizza box" configurations.
-
- That's OK. Shoeboxes are a better design anyway. Smaller footprint and just
- as cheap.
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