From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 18:42:45 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <3461412223528350ee60daf448faa0cd@ladd.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <> References: <> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] /sys/include/ip.h 5c(1) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 83feecee-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu Oct 8 16:43:50 EDT 2009, forsyth@vitanuova.com wrote: > >but by 1990 with microchannel &c. things were much more closed off. > > i thought only one company ever really made microchannel, > and even they weren't terribly in earnest in the end, > except on non-PC things like RS6000. in the end, they weren't terribly earnest about pcs. :-) intel made the i82310 chipset. and most 1990 ps/2 models were mca based. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Channel_architecture http://www.yourdictionary.com/computer/ibm-pc i have an microchannel xga card around here somewhere. it's probablly got a pound of gold in it. - erik