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On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 3:50 AM, Mutiny <mutiny.mutiny@rediffmail.com> wrote:
>From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
>To me it sounds as if you are saying that DEC did/designed PCI.
>Are you sure about that? As far as I know, PCI was designed and created
>by Intel, and the first users were just plain PC machines.

Work on PCI began at Intel's Architecture Development Lab c. 1990. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conventional_PCI#History