Integrated MB (was: Re: [PLUG] New Linux PVR)

Brent Rieck bsr at spek.org
Thu Jul 24 10:22:01 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 01:10, robinsoq wrote:
> There was 
> a time in the 386 era when nothing was integrated and you had real control 
> over hardware, will we ever see those days again?  Less integration may
> have meant more cost but how much does it cost to throw out a whole entire
> motherboard let alone potentially the processor too?

You can still find motherboards without sound and video and modems, etc,
integrated onto them; it is hard (or perhaps impossible) to find one
without an IDE controller build into it though.  

Personally, I don't want to go back to the bad old days - I like not
having to buy 3 cards to supply video, sound, and ethernet and have no
trouble finding motherboards that are compatible with linux.  Also from
what I can remember one can buy four P4 motherboards and CPUs for the
cost of one 386mb+cpu back in the day.

--Brent




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