First post, by Mike
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Something that really piqued my curiosity as of late are 8-bit computers such as the Apple II, Commodore 64, and the Atari 8-bit line of computers, and consoles such as the NES, and even the Sega Master System all having rectangular chips very close in size, and distance to each other. So cool that computing hardware was once this way, before switching to a combination of square and rectangular chips in the 90's. Does anyone know why it was that way for 8-bit machines? I also took a look at a lot of 286 and 386 motherboards, and they seem to have a common theme of square CPUs but rectangular everything else. Interesting stuff IMO.