12 Nov
2001
12 Nov
'01
9:28 a.m.
On 12-Nov-2001 UberTechnoid(a)home.com wrote:
As far as open architecture, ISA was very well
documented and noone
needed to pay IBM to use the buss. MCA was a different story. The PC
wasn't an open architecture, but the effects were something of the
same. Heck there are ISA slots on Amigas, Ataris, etc.....
My MIPScomputer M/120 has ISA slots. Being big endian, it has to do some
fun things with byte and word swapping different parts of the IO space.
-Philip