Originally Posted by Leisesturm

Your use of the word pivot is entirely clear to me, but I would have preferred using 'bosses', only because you now raise again the point that we still don't know exactly what the o.p. means. I thought we were getting closer when another poster mentioned 'caliper' brakes. But maybe not. You also may not have noticed, but the fork you found is not in stock. From my experience that means discontinued.

I don't know... maybe its because I am 58 years old and no longer dazzled by all this stuff, but I can't see any good reason to put a brand new fork in a 20 year old frame. Unless, maybe, the fork was damaged due to a crash... I would be worried about the frame as well in that case. Still, no reason to use a brand new fork, way cheaper to find a used one of the same kind as the damaged one.

Unless, maybe, the new fork had post, or IS mounts for disc brakes, but just to use standard or dual pivot sidepulls? Absolutely not. As you just said, that would not be an 'upgrade'. To mount v-'s or canti's? Maybe, but in that case mixing would not be an issue. I would use in the rear what I would use up front. There would be zero reason to run v's up front and canti's in back, or canti's up front and v's in the rear.