18 Apr
2013
18 Apr
'13
4:46 p.m.
On Thu, 18 Apr 2013, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On 18 Apr 2013, at 13:17, "Dave McGuire"
<mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
Cloned or made boards for it? There were a few 3rd party motherboard
manufacturers that licensed MCA, but I don't remember their names offhand.
As far as board manufacturers go (some licensed, some not), that I know of
included 3Com, Western Digital, SMC, Adaptec, Corel (SCSI boards, I still
have one), BusTek/BusLogic(Mylex), DPT, Kingston Technology...
FWIW, both PCI and ISA are /still/ very popular for industrial / single
board (backplane) computers that are often used in mission critical
applications. I can't say I've seen either MCA or EISA used in anything
lately though.
On 04/18/2013 01:14 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
How many people outside of IBM cloned it though? It definitely didn't
survive as long as PCI. 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.