Mobility Electronics surveyed all of the competing technologies and found that technologies that serialize data rather than taking advantage of the PCI bus are inadequate and would be greatly lacking in a number of respects. For example, each of these standards fails to address issues of support related to legacy peripherals and would have little or no upgrade path to support new technologies. On the other hand, a solution that would take advantage of the industry standard PCI bus would solve the problems of notebook docking without these same drawbacks and would even lend itself to solve other difficult computer architectural issues.
The PCI bus, however, can not be moved over any great physical length due to its technical make-up. An attempt to send the PCI bus in its current form over a wire would be require a large cable that could be no more than four to six inches in length. It became clear that to move the PCI bus out of a notebook computer over any distance, a new technology would have to be invented.
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