Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!rutgers!ucsd!ames!killer!tness7!ninja!sys1!hal6000!trsvax!johnm From: johnm@trsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: GATHER and say NO to MCA! Message-ID: <216100045@trsvax> Date: 1 Jul 88 13:35:00 GMT References: <42900016@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> Lines: 24 Nf-ID: #R:uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu:42900016:trsvax:216100045:000:1044 Nf-From: trsvax.UUCP!johnm Jul 1 08:35:00 1988 > I'm amazed to see somebody try to make a case for AVOIDING standards in > this day and age. If anybody worked to AVOID standards it was IBM. NuBus would have been an equally good choice (and in fact was the one chosen by Apple and will likely be chosen by others) but instead they chose to spend the enormous amounts of money necessary to build a proprietary architecture. Now why do you suppose they did that? Could it be GREED!!!!!!!!!!!!! You don't suppose that they knew that if they didn't come up with a proprietary architecture that it would have meant less revenue for them (no licensing agreements to third party vendors, and reduced sales of OEM plugin cards). You don't suppose that they knew that it would make clones of the machine easier and thus loose them some of their almighty profit do you? You think it was as one of IBM's engineers said, "We didn't set out to make a proprietary bus system, we just wanted to make a better one." Yeah, I'm convinced... John Munsch "Shave and a haircut. No TOON can resist that"