AW: Re: an idea ...

[Ray Peck]

Thierry Rochebois writes:
>Why not a modular digital system using a serial interface such as the I2C ?
>such an interface can be more flexible than a parallel Data/Address bus.

Ease/cost of building modules, was my thought.  Building serial
interfaces for 30 modules isn't my idea of fun.  Making a parallel bus
that all the cards plug into (on a backplane or set of backplanes) is
simple, cheap, easy to debug, etc.