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@Felthry i voted but i don't really know what the question is
@monorail i don't either!
@monorail sometimes i like to just make polls between different versions of the same sort of general idea to see how people respond
you can vote for your favorite, your least favorite, the one that's the most aesthetically pleasing, one chosen by a roll of a five-sided die, whatever you want
@Felthry PDS
@ticky now that's one i don't think we've heard of
@Felthry it was a thing on some old Macs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processor_Direct_Slot
@ticky oh, reminds me of pcie, how it's not a shared bus but instead a direct connection between the thingy and the processor
obviously far slower and appears to be a more parallel protocol than a serial one, but same sort of idea--make things faster by not having to share a bus
@ticky or maybe just make it cheaper, in this case.
@Felthry yeah this was definitely something built out of a necessity, without much planning, at a time when there wasn’t really such a thing as an “industry standard” lol
early partial results spoilers
no one likes the obscure ones
maybe i should have put MCA on there just to have a super obscure one