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- From: winsor@geek.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (js)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Information on SS-2 and SS-10 differences?
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 16:35:35 GMT
- Organization: Texas Instruments Incorporated, Austin
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- References: <1gk250INNh0s@cs.tut.fi> <1992Dec15.215743.16804@ll.mit.edu> <MONTNARO.92Dec17103326@spyder.crd.ge.com> <2B314D99.6C1C@deneva.sdd.trw.com>
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- In article <2B314D99.6C1C@deneva.sdd.trw.com>, simpson@minotaur.sdd.trw.com (Scott Simpson) writes:
- |> In article <MONTNARO.92Dec17103326@spyder.crd.ge.com> montanaro@ausable.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) writes:
- |> >As machines get smaller and smaller, and the number of interfaces they must
- |> >support gets larger and larger, it's looking more like the back of a
- |> >computer should just have one massive DB-style connector with something like
- |> >1000-2000 pins. Customers could just order the appropriate "break-out" cable
- |>
- |> The problem with this is now you cannot unplug things individually.
- |> Suppose you want to replace the monitor. You have to unplug the disk
- |> drives too. Won't work.
-
- You *assume* how such a plug would be fixtured. Could it not be something
- like a false backplate which plugs into the "real" one, but provides
- only the connections you are interested in? Then, of course, you could
- unplug anything at all willy nilly. There are many other ways this could
- be accomplished, too. This is just ONE. NEVER NEVER assume.
-
- john
-