19 Apr
2013
19 Apr
'13
3:53 a.m.
On 18 Apr 2013, at 19:46, "Tothwolf" <tothwolf at concentric.net> wrote:
On Thu, 18 Apr 2013, Cory Smelosky wrote:
The embedded market is a completely different game. ;)
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.