Re: Apple's ways

[Raymond Wiker <Raymond.Wiker@fast.no>]

"william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com> writes:

> "Roy Miller" <millers@inebraska.com> wrote in message
> 3B94ECF4.A4992B97@inebraska.com">news:3B94ECF4.A4992B97@inebraska.com...
> > You have contradicted yourself here, twice!
> >
> > 1) The PS/2 line, from the very beginning included a 386. (While it is
> > true that Compaq had the first 386 PC, it wasn't because IBM failed to
> > recognize the significance of the 386, rather, it has to do with your
> > second self contradiction)
> 
> Say what Roy. The Model 30 and the Model 50 were 286 machines
> with Microchannel and the Model 25 was an ISA 286 machine. If I
> recall properly the 386 wasn't introduced until the PS/2 model 80 came
> out.

        The original PS/2 model 30 was an 8086, I think.

> Hardware for the machines was hard to get and expensive since IBM
> had the only viable microchannel machines.  Most PC makers meaning
> the majority of the market stuck with the ISA architecture.  If it was
> doomed so much then why is microchannel no longer with us? It didn't
> disappear completely until recently so how bad was ISA then?

        I think MCA is still used in the RS-6000 series (used to be,
anyway). The *main* reason that MCA did not become a success was that
IBM wanted license fees for it. This license fee was per machine, and
even included IBM-compatible machines without MCA slots, *and* machines
shipped before the introduction of MCA.

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Raymond Wiker
Raymond.Wiker@fast.no