A system and apparatus for a compact peripheral component interconnect (CPCI) computer system having exclusive front card access for both active and passive CPCI cards is provided. This system is further comprised of an active backplane with a front and rear side, a plurality of slots, each of these slots comprising of at least one connector and each of these connectors having a column and row arrangement of connector-pins, wherein individual ones of these connector-pins correspond to selected pairs of adjacent slots, and wherein selected adjacent slot pairs are reserved for particular pairs of CPCI cards comprising a single active card and a single passive card.
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