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1. DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab (djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2017 10:02:23 EST DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab

   x86 motherboards should come with a handful of embedded arduino-esque subsystems that expose themselves to the outside world via a BeBox-esque GeekPort

   1. penguin42 (penguin42@mastodon.org.uk)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2017 10:10:54 EST penguin42

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      @djsundog It used to be called the parallel port 🙂

   2. ❄️🦊 (icefox@octodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2017 10:11:48 EST ❄️🦊

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      @djsundog Actually an Arduino or Pi type system as a PCIe card would be kinda cool...

   3. Vertigo (vertigo@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Dec-2017 10:46:54 EST Vertigo

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      @djsundog Nooooo!!! You don't want that! That will utterly kill any market incentives to support USB, Thunderbolt, and all the other I/O standards that you need to pay $10000/year OR MORE to participate with.

      (I'm not even joking. Even RapidIO requires a very expensive membership if you want a vendor ID to use for yourself. However, I've found a way around that via a gaping loop-hole, which RapidIO knows about and surprisingly never asked me to NOT disclose it.)