🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <3o8t9t$n...@engnews2.eng.sun.com>,
Doom Twinkie <ter...@Sun.COM> wrote:
>Robert Barnes (bo...@xetron.com) wrote:
>: In article <3nk7dr$r...@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>, jlwo...@unity.ncsu.edu says...
>: >>joav kohn (jk...@128.174.5.60) wrote:
>: >>: IBM came out with plug and play about 8 years ago, and it was called
>: >>
>: >Noone bought it because IBM didn't support it.  Don't EVEN think of 
>: >flaming me on this one, because I got stuck with a PS/2 55sx back 5 years 
>: >ago.  Upgradable?  Hardly.  Worst computer I ever owned. >Jeff
>: >
>: Same here, I had a PS/2 Model 60. When the hard drive went out, I found 
>: that I could buy a new system, for less than the replacement drive! At that
>: time only IBM brand was available. Very few third-party vendors even 
>: supported the M/C adapters. Goes to show that no matter how technically
>: supperior you product is, it will die on the vine if other hardware 
>: manufacturers and vendors ignore it.
>
>This is till true. Most vendors still do not support or carry MCA
>hardware.
>
>-Terry

I believe that the big problem with MCA was that IBM screwed up the same
way Apple did with the Mac -- they didn't make it a public standard.  (They
may have released the standard later, but at least at inception it was
IBM-only.)  EISA was the reaction of other vendors to this proprietary
standard.

-- Rich W.
depa...@netcom.com

ps I'm not flaming the Mac -- just that Apple might've done better to make
it public much much earlier.