On Thu Oct 8 16:43:50 EDT 2009, fors...@vitanuova.com wrote: > >but by 1990 with microchannel &c. things were much more closed off. > > i thought only one company ever really made microchannel, > and even they weren't terribly in earnest in the end, > except on non-PC things like RS6000.
in the end, they weren't terribly earnest about pcs. :-) intel made the i82310 chipset. and most 1990 ps/2 models were mca based. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Channel_architecture http://www.yourdictionary.com/computer/ibm-pc i have an microchannel xga card around here somewhere. it's probablly got a pound of gold in it. - erik
