24 Oct
2006
24 Oct
'06
5:56 a.m.
On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 21:58 -0700, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 6/27/2006 at 11:36 PM J.C. Wren wrote:
Actually, this hasn't changed much at all, really. I think the fact that
we're getting fewer bus slots on computers is caused by things that were
usually done on the PCI bus now being on the motherboard (NICs,
countless USB ports, sound cards, in some cases VGA..), thus freeing up
slots that were usually used for the same things, and also partially
that we're moving to smaller form factor motherboards.
Newbies will always be scared of opening up the machines, especially as
long as we have stupid and clumsy chassis designs like the current
generic ATX convention.
Tore
Everyone seems to think every damn card, bus, and
system made should
be backwards to the AND gate. Get over it, move in to the 90's. At the
very least.
I suspect there's not much life left in the "open up the box
and swap a
card" idea, at least as far as personal computers go. Increasingly, I'm
seeing people who have NEVER been inside their systems to add or upgrade a
card. Numbers of expansion slots are decreasing (the system I'm writing
this on has a grand total of 3 PCI slots).