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Before circuit boards, we used point-to-point wiring between components that were usually mounted onto a metal chassis or plugged in to sockets.

It's a low-tech method still used in prototyping, for very small production runs and by hobbyists.

Individual transistors developed into integrated circuits (chips), but these were still mounted onto some kind of circuit board/chassis. The advance was to integrate *very many* transistors (millions-plus) into Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) circuits, such as microprocessors and memory chips.

So....

1. A low-cost, short-run alternative is point-to-point wiring,

2. The high-technology alternative is to integrate many//most/all functions into a single ship.

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