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To: FJB who wrote (3901)	1/16/1998 11:29:00 AM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 6843

<RE:PII && "It is totally and completely incompatable with socket7."> Robert Being socket7 compliant involves 3 basic areas. Mechanical, electrical and logical. Compared to Socket7, Socket8/Slot1 has a different number of functional pins (mechanical), they operate at different electrical specifications (voltage, current, timing & termination), and most of all, the bus protocal is totally different. Could a bus interface/translator be developed? Possibly but it would degrade performance and take up lots of silicon. I wouldn't expect Intel to have any interest in doing it. EP