Re:Christine: The World's Most Modular PC Design
by brudgers on Friday February 21, 2014 @10:25PM
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As new PC technology evolves, Project Christine can evolve with it.
I read that and was taken back to the early 90's and Zeos PC's with CPU daughter cards that would protect my investment according to the glossy ads in Computer Shopper. Then there was the 487 socket for upgrading 486SX CPU's...by disabling the FPUless chip completely for the fully functional chip that should have been bought to begin with. Not that upgrades were ever done in significant numbers.
Of all the forms of premature optimization that occur in computing, non-standard upgradable hardware is among the most persistent.
I read that and was taken back to the early 90's and Zeos PC's with CPU daughter cards that would protect my investment according to the glossy ads in Computer Shopper. Then there was the 487 socket for upgrading 486SX CPU's...by disabling the FPUless chip completely for the fully functional chip that should have been bought to begin with. Not that upgrades were ever done in significant numbers.
Of all the forms of premature optimization that occur in computing, non-standard upgradable hardware is among the most persistent.