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The Power of Proto Boards!

Oxide and Friends

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Is This Really a X86 Server?

We put too many things on this board, like the concept that we ran into was hey, an x86 server with all of its management and everything is way too complicated let's slim it down. And so we initially were slimming it down to just the management subsystems right like this is intended to be the service processor for gimlet our x86 server. And it just turns out that even that's too much right and by having it be all on one board instead of it being pluggable modules, it meant that we committed to a lot of design choices where in fact what we were trying to understand was, are these actually the parts that we planned to use? The answer

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