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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
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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"