Given everything has been evolution from discrete valve tubes onwards, so there is a lot of it just being the easiest way to provide the connection to the rest of the system in a manner that you can hand off easily to the motherboard designers to be cheaply and efficiently mounted.
Given everything has been evolution from discrete valve tubes onwards, so there is a lot of it just being the easiest way to provide the connection to the rest of the system in a manner that you can hand off easily to the motherboard designers to be cheaply and efficiently mounted.