Now we come to the important part of this update. The backplane. The board I’m going to plug the CPU, ROM, RAM, Video, and Ethernet cards into. If the CPU is the brain of a computer, the ...

As the processor matured it became well-known for ... this computer is plugged into a backplane that breaks out the data, address, and interrupt lines to every device on the bus.

Boca Raton, FL. It was designed to accommodate future technologies by using a high-bandwidth backplane up to 256 bits wide that CPU and peripheral boards plugged into. The first Intel-based ...