🚀 go-pugleaf

>>: >>: 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

We may be getting a little off-subject here, but my computer vendor claims
that IBM just dropped MicroChannel.  Too bad, if true.  As far as I know, it
is the only bus that supports sharing IRQ's, which has been a major thorn
in my side.

Hans E. Hansen
ha...@gears.efn.org