[Info-vax] Happy 25th birthday Macintosh !

[Michael Unger]

On 2009-01-25 22:16, "JF Mezei" wrote:

> [...]
> 
> [...]                                                       Back then,
> chips were either plugged into a socket, or had the pins go through the
> circuit board. Today, they just have "flat feet" that welded on the
> surface of the board.

That's probably an issue of too much inductance with sockets and/or
through-hole mounting considering today's operating frequencies ...

> [...]

Michael

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