On 29/01/18 09:32 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 09:17:20PM -0500, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
My benchmark for processor success is: Does several of
Asus,Supermicro,Tyan,Gigabyte et al make a motherboard for this CPU.
I second this. If I can't buy it, then I don't care. This is true for
cars and computer.
Ditto: Unobtanium isn't very useful (;-))
The sparc laptop I used to have was deliberately designed to fit on a
board that was identical to a Dell product. When the screen died it was
swapped for a Dell part. Ditto the battery, when it got wimpy.
--dave
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