19 Apr
2013
19 Apr
'13
4:12 a.m.
On 04/18/2013 07:55 PM, David Riley 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
ISTR DEC did the same dumb thing with VAXBI. Possibly XMI as well?
Yup, exactly. :-( Suits.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
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.