Re: The Apple II is a pioneer

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <U069PKT13MO$EwUJ@dmc12.demon.co.uk>,
Richard Kilpatrick  <richard@dmc12.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In message <3F38A110.7D1D3F33@usa.net>, Jeff Thomas <a2forever@usa.net> 
>writes
>>Apple is American, and the Apple II series was its flagship product line
>>that supported 'open architecture', which was later adapted by IBM PC in
>>1981.
>
>Unless the IBM PC adopted it from S100, or any of the many other 
>emerging standards of the time ;)

It worked like this:

The Apple II adopted it from S100
The IBM PC adopted it from the Apple II
The Macintosh II adopted it from the IBM PC

<g>

Of course all these open hardware buses were all mutually incompatible
with one another.  Thus an S100 expansion card didn't fit in the Apple II,
the IBM PC or the Mac II .... et cetera for the other buses and their
expansion cards.


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