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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:
I had never heard of PC104 and now I'm fascinated.
And a little sad that it didn't become the default form factor for SFF PCs.
I still have several of my old PC/104 and PC/104-Plus SBCs. (Sadly, no PCI104s, those were too new for them to be e-waste when I left that job.)
They had some neat aspects, but the stack-up often made heat dissipation a problem (we spent a lot of engineering time on designing cases that could passively cool them), and the PC/104-Plus modules were a particular pain to separate without bending pins. (Usually the ISA pins.)
The video makes a mistake though, both CPU modules are PC/104, just the first is 8-bit ISA bus PC/104, and the second is 16-bit ISA bus PC/104. PC/104-Plus adds a PCI bus connector on the opposite side of the board from the 16-bit ISA connectors.
They were extremely fun to prototype circuits with though. ISA was relatively simple to implement, and they often had a parallel port on top of that, in addition to any dedicated GPIO/PWM/DAC/ADC hardware that the CPU card might have had.
They still have a decent presence in the industrial computer space, though custom System on Module (SOM) designs, and things like the Jetson SOMs and low-coast SBCs like the Raspberry Pi have eaten into their market share.
YESSSSS OS/2
I'd usually say "all hail our dark lord presentation manager" but embedded machine.
Coldfire is a lobotomized 68000, I want to go into more detail in a chost but it and the other things I want to cover in it make me sad
I'd read it, I liked working with the 68k, but never did much with Coldfire. (I think I only ever played around with a devkit for it. I can't recall using it in a project.)
No I mean the content makes me sad and saps my energy to actually write it
I am in fact, that bitch: I only ever played a demo of Jazz Jackrabbit back in the day, on a machine with no sound, so I never really got what the big deal was at the time. TBH I had that experience with a number of PC "classics", especially the Apogee shareware stuff.