On 1999-11-23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>MCA, microchannel architecture, was a short lived IBM phenomenon.
>It looks similar to ISA but the cards had blue tabs on them. This
>came in both 16 and 32 bit and was the first 32bit bus, but because
>it was expensive, proprietary and IBM wouldn't share it, it died
>with the advent of EISA.
Wrong! IBM sold a ton of Micro Channel stuff! THE PS/2 division was IBM's
top money maker. Micro Channel didn't do well with the home user, but they
did much better than any EISA computer did in the home, including Compaq.
Also they look more like PCI cards, and IBM couldn't use the "MCA"
abbreviation, because, well, it is copyrighted by MCA :-)
Chad A. Fernandez
Net-Tamer V 1.11.2 - Test Drive
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