@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
@Felthry it was a thing on some old Macs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processor_Direct_Slot