23 Nov
2009
23 Nov
'09
3:01 p.m.
geoffrey oltmans wrote:
lol... that's a good way to put it. I think in
some instances they have support for hot swapping PCI cards as well, so there may be a
downtime/reliability angle to their use as well.
But, for the most part, I agree with your statement... probably has more to do with
desktop programmers trying (not so hard) to do an embedded design.
It's worth note that a lot of the backplanes support multiple PCI
and/or ISA busses. If you want more information than you really need,
google PICMG
I have a couple of 386 ISA boards and several Pentium-I ISA boards,
and a few Pentium-III "PCI/ISA" boards. Like somebody said, they're
heavily telco-oriented. Lots of I/O slots and I/O glue, but on the
older stuff, not-huge throughput per slot.
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