18 Apr
2013
18 Apr
'13
4:55 p.m.
On Apr 18, 2013, at 5:13 PM, Ian King wrote:
ISTR DEC did the same dumb thing with VAXBI. Possibly XMI as well?
- Dave
On 04/18/2013
01:14 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
ISTR that they also overreacted to their blunder on the ISA bus (they reserved no
licensing rights) and overcompensated by demanding huge fees to license MCA. Third
parties said, no thanks.... -- Ian Yeah. Every time I think of IBM mainframe
designs...I can't help but
wonder why microchannel for the microcomputer market never took off.
I'm not sure it's fair to say that it never took off. It was very popular for
a
long time. Many manufacturers made MCA cards. It was also big in the
RS/6000 world.