[rescue] Personal Progressions

Big Endian bigendian at mac.com
Fri Feb 8 15:59:12 CST 2002


>Big Endian skrev:
>
>>MCA was a *HUGE* improvement from the previous ISA and EISA systems.
>>It was the first *TRUE* plug and play system that actually worked.
>
><COUGH>Zorro</COUGH>
>
>>It was faster than ISA and much more flexible.  I'd rather have MCA
>>on an rs6k but its a *LOT* better than most other expansion busses.
>
>On the PC, you mean.

I mean in general.  I think that MCA is superior to PCI, NUBUS, ISA, 
EISA and a few others.  It notably doesn't include sbus, GIO, VME, 
EBus, etc.    I've never used a Zorro based machine.  But I've had a 
*SHITLOAD* of problems with the above mentioned bad busses on more 
than just PCs.

daniel
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