It's more plausible that it could work the Cyberstorm accelerators. But I think you're right, it's definitely not going to work with the Blizzard designs. This is because the Blizzard designs are restricted to a 32-bit wide bus. I fail to see why they designed it this way, given that they already used a 64-bit design with the Cyberstorm. The only thing I can think of is that space limitations on the Blizzard PCB prevented them from routing a 64-bit databus, so they had to resort to a 32-bit bus instead. I'm not sure how many layers the Blizzard board actually is.
Space restrictions will have been less of a problem on the Cyberstorm boards because they didn't need to fit inside a trapdoor.
If I were to guess I'd say as a cost saving measure as much as space saving - those cards were hideously expensive as it was, not to mention complex.
Maybe it was a mistake for me to restart this thread, after all. All people want to do is discuss the merits of the events that occurred on the old thread!
Apple Hammer
Not at all sir, getting it out in the clear in a calm, pleasant manner is a valuable and useful thing. Tbh I think it's all done with at this point anyway.
