[Pc_Support] Future-proof PC motherboard?

[Damien McKenna]

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2521&p=3

A motherboard from ECS that has a daughterboard for housing the CPU,
with daughterboards available that support both current *either* AMD
*or* Intel CPUs, with more in development including one for the
forthcoming Athlon M2 series.

For some perspective, there was a company several years back called PIOS
(later renamed to Met at box) that had an engineer named Dave Haynie
(ex-Commodore systems engineer) designing a motherboard + daughterboard
system called the PIOS-One which would have allowed for something like
that.  It is an extremely Commodore Amiga-like design to have the CPU on
a daughterboard to allow easy upgrading later on (Motorola MC680x0
series with some third-party PowerPC cards), and Haynie's board was
initially aimed at the PowerPC "G3" and "G4" processor series.  During
development Apple halted the clone market causing the non-Apple PowerPC
system market to disappear almost overnight; when this happened Haynie
went back to the drawing board to redesign his system to also support
other CPUs (IIRC for the DEC Alpha), and it is IMHO/IIRC ultimately this
redesign that caused the system's ultimate cancellation.

So it is very cool to see "modern" motherboards starting to look at
this.

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