There's a Sony Play Station?? :-) > On 12/7/05, Carl Crider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> pre-SCSI, micro-channel days. "Personal System/2" > > Not sure how to parse this statement, but... > > The PS/2 (which did indeed stand for Personal System/2) introduced the > microchannel architecture. Some of the low end models (25 and 30) were > pretty much a rev on the AT and had ISA busses and ESDI harddrive > interfaces (but not necessessarily the harddrives themselves). The Mod > 25 had an integrated monitor a la the original Macintosh. > > The higher end PS/2s used MCA busses and SCSI drives, although later > models like the PS/2E bowed to the inevitable and uses ISA busses. > > Someone said that the PS/2 came from the PS/1, in fact it was the > reverse, the PS/1 was a "home computer" which came out in 1990 to > re-enter the market surrendered by the PCjr. The PS/1 name evolved > into Aptiva. The PS/2 nomenclature was more in line with OS/2. The > PS/2 line and OS/2 were both announced in 1987, and IIRC concurrently. > > Nowadays, besides the mouse/keyboard interface, I beleive that more > folks associate PS/2 and PS/1 with Sony playstations than with IBM > computers. > -- > Rick DeNatale > > Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site > http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/ > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > >
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