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This isn't a toaster or anything.

A few decades ago nearly all but the most complicated devices could have their entire schematic printed in the last few pages of the owner's manual.

Today... a typical PC mainboard schematic might be hundreds or thousands of pages dealing with all sorts of complications for RF and stuff.

What would 99.999% of people do with such a schematic?



Today... a typical PC mainboard schematic might be hundreds or thousands of pages

Go find one and take a look. Seriously, they're out there. Google an OEM name followed by "schematic" (quoted, because otherwise anti-repair Google will misdirect you to owner's manuals and other shit) and start reading. I'll challenge you to find one that's over 100 pages, because I personally haven't seen one. They're closer to 50-70.


Project Olympus[0] from OpenCompute is 238 pages for the Intel XSP version.

[0]: https://www.opencompute.org/wiki/Server/ProjectOlympus


Ironic, because it's gotten easier than ever to include such big files, either on a USB drive or preloaded onto the SSD.




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