Microchannel Architecture (was: Best version of AIX for my RS6000)

From: Clayton Frank Helvey <msspcva_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu Oct 31 01:27:00 2002

Hey, I was told many years ago by a DEC guy at a
symposium that IBM ripped off the Pro bus when they
designed the Microchannel Architecture (MCA), and had
to actually pay DEC for patent infringement.

Was that true?

-- Frank


--- "r. 'bear' stricklin" <red_at_bears.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Brian Hechinger wrote:
>
> ...
> > -brian (who thinks MCA is WAY better than PCI,
> thankyouverymuch)
>
> You're entitled to your opinion, even though it's
> wrong. (;
>
> I won't argue that MCA is still pretty cool.
>
> ok
> r.
>


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