(I wish they would make "ultimate" mobos with all the interfaces in between too --- I mean if ISA with a Coffee Lake CPU is possible, how about a pair of IDEs, floppies, and parallel ports too...)
Re:The future of 32-bit Linux
by exikyut on Saturday December 05, 2020 @09:44AM
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Are there PCI IDE+floppy+parallel(+serial+joystick+PS/2+etc) controllers out there that are bug-for-bug indiscernible from the controllers mounted on motherboards?
No, you can find plenty of ones that will hold a recent i7:
https://www.dfi.com/product/index/1502
https://ipc.msi.com/product_detail/Industrial-Motherboard/AT...
http://ibase-usa.com/english/ProductDetail/EmbeddedComputing...
(I wish they would make "ultimate" mobos with all the interfaces in between too --- I mean if ISA with a Coffee Lake CPU is possible, how about a pair of IDEs, floppies, and parallel ports too...)