> Personally, I thing the backplane design is a better one
>than that silly mother board thingy which has become so
>popular. I think the only reason we have them is because
>IBM started with that in order to make a cheap intergrated
>computer for personal use. (Anyone else have any comments
>on this?)
I like backplane-based designs myself... I thought about buying a kit once to
let me build a weather satellite decoder, based around a Z80 on one card, a
Yamaha MSX graphics processor on another and a decoder on a third. Just need
the money.
I think Apple had a motherboard design before IBM came up with the PC - before
the PC I don't think IBM built many things smaller than mainframes. Certainly
my Apple ][e had a board with the memory, processor, graphics, keyboard etc.
with 8 slots for expansion cards. (I quite liked Apple until they came up with
the Mac. The Lisa was a cool machine.)
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