[rescue] Personal Progressions

[Iggy Drougge]

Big Endian skrev:

>>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.

Nubus is IME plug and play in its purest form, unless MCA's pseudo plug and
play, what with its ADF files.

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