Bad idea: a modernized s-100 computer built around pci-e slots

Ok that was a shitpost but really: pci-e has long been in the jank era IMO and we need to fix it

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@foone It'd be great if all PCIe slots were just replaced by internal thunderbolt ports, and you wouldn't have to worry about plugging cards into the mainboard and if they fit besides each other anymore. You could stack them much more efficiently, and have them in A5, A6, A7, ... form factor, so you could have 1 A5 sized device, or 2 A6 sized ones in the same space, and so on.

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