Wayne Chirnside wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

CA> We've de-modularized computers now with lots of stuff incl on the
CA> mb. Neither way is good IMO.

RJT> Agreed.  The original idea was to give you lots of choices,  the thrust
RJT> recently seems instead to give you a bundle of "stuff" that'll work
RJT> together, and be cheaper to make.

WC> I'm for putting a lot of stuff on the motherboard BUT only if you 
WC> can disable it in CMOS and the motherboard has sufficient slots for 
WC> the latest and greatest. Given some of the low cost options on Ebay 
WC> for SCSI I'm even giving that a looksee.

There are fewer and fewer slots all the time,  it seems,  particularly when
you have a MB with lots of "stuff" on it.  And as far as
disabling it goes,  that may or may not always work.  I can still remember
a few years back how this guy I knew had a 386 MB that had a bad problem in
the IDE part.  He could disable it in CMOS,  but it still wouldn't let him
plug in another "paddle card" to use instead.  That MB was of
_very_ limited usefulness after that.  If you can't take it out...

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