PCI bus in order to be able to use standard components.
Maybe onboard SCSI.
Optional Multi-CPU support.
21264 bus protocol ? (Which will also be used by AMD-K7 and have the
mechanical design of Slot1.)
Intelligent BIOS: Understanding Minix, VFAT, isofs and _ext2_ makes booting
of any OS very easy. Maybe a part should be flashable just like you can
flash MILO into a DEC Alpha. So you hardcode some Flash management into a
ROM and have the other parts (PCI Card initialization, CPU setup, Hardware
tests, ..., Filesystem interface, ...) flashable.
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