It's amusing in retrospect how difficult it was for Intel to obsolete the older BX chipset. One thing people forget is the venerable 440BX was actually the hi-end server chipset - it wasn't intended to be the bread and butter Slot 1 mainstream chipset. But all the mobo makers migrated to BX since the "mainstream" LX, MX, ZX chipsets were just gimped too much.
But if you ever wondered why BX had things like support for 1GB (!) of RAM, dual-processor, ACPI, etc that we take for granted now - that's why. It was supposed to be a server chipset ;p
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It's amusing in retrospect how difficult it was for Intel to obsolete the older BX chipset. One thing people forget is the venerable 440BX was actually the hi-end server chipset - it wasn't intended to be the bread and butter Slot 1 mainstream chipset. But all the mobo makers migrated to BX since the "mainstream" LX, MX, ZX chipsets were just gimped too much.But if you ever wondered why BX had things like support for 1GB (!) of RAM, dual-processor, ACPI, etc that we take for granted now - that's why. It was supposed to be a server chipset ;p