Xenix ?

From: Lawrence Walker <lgwalker_at_mts.net>
Date: Sun Nov 11 22:45:32 2001

 What Atari used ISA ? TTs or Megas ? Certainly not the ST.

Lawrence
  
> 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.....
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeff
>
> In <Pine.GSO.4.05.10111111318580.21847-100000_at_sundance.cse.ucsc.edu>, on
> 11/11/01
> at 01:32 PM, "Francis. Javier Mesa" <javi_at_cse.ucsc.edu> said:
>
> >Speaking of M$, I was reading the other day a keynote speech by BillyBoy
> >in which he claimed that DOS got such a widespread use because they
> >contributed with an open architecture, the PC. As far as I know the PC
> >was not open at all (i.e. the BIOS, etc), and most importantly the PC was
> >not their architecture! The key components of what made a PC a PCE were
> >supposed to be propietary, and most of the early clones that used DOS had
> >copied BIOSs which were theoretically illegal. So basically BillyBoy was
> >admiting that his empire was based on the encouragement of piracy by
> >their OEM clients of IBM's IP. Interesting, eh?
>
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