On Jan 15, 2005, at 03:39 pm, Lyndon Tiu wrote:
LCPDS never was a standard in computer hardware. USB and Firewire both are.
LCPDS is derived from 68040 PDS which was actually the standard interface for the 68040. There were a lot of interface cards made for LCPDS, more, by rights, than there maybe should have been ;o)
No early Macs (before the x200 powermacs) used a standard interface technology (they all used PDS of NuBus, or both) so it wasn't any different from the rest of the Mac crowd.
SCSI too was never a standard in deskstop computer hardware (maybe for
workstations and *nix but not PCs which is the majority) but USB and Firewire
both are.
SCSI is the most widespread and standardized interface in existence, it's just always been to darn expensive for the home market. Again all Apple computers used it.
Back in the early 90s Apple were embroiled in a war against the PCs so called 'standards' by using their own, better ones. These days Apple uses open industry standards so that their computers have a better chance of slipping straight in in place of a PC, or indeed alongside or in cooperation with one or more.
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