From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net   
      
   In article ,   
   wolfgang kern   wrote:   
   >[snip]   
   >why obsolete Serial, LPT (also dead) gives you much more options.   
   >   
   >you cannot just fiddle an FPGA into any laptop:   
   >* the socket wont match   
   >* and even if: the power pins are somewhere else   
   >* supply voltages are different   
   >* the bus system wont fit neither in size nor impedance   
   >* all the on-chip gates need to be addressed and configured   
   >* how would it boot at all w/o a setup memory controller ?   
   >   
   >So you better don't waste your time/money/brain on that.   
      
   I think it's pretty obvious to anyone who's even casually   
   observing now what's going on here.  I suggest not wasting any   
   more time on it; I know I won't.   
      
   	- Dan C.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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