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From: aland@infmx.UUCP (Dr. Scump)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: ESDI controller recommendations
Summary: who shot MCA?
Message-ID: <2296@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 89 05:32:19 GMT
References: <121@mdi386.UUCP> <1474@wb3ffv.ampr.org> <4843@looking.on.ca> <1989Sep2.023511.24943@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <68@calcite.UUCP> <1989Sep4.024559.13279@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Reply-To: aland@infmx.UUCP (alan denney)
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In article <1989Sep4.024559.13279@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
>...
>The people here, who read and post to this group, are working with and
>talking about ISA 80386 machines.  That means AT bus.  Like it or not,

Says who?  

>are lots of compelling reasons for using the AT bus, and companies such as
>DPT make it more than reasonable to do so.  Items like multiple-sourcing,
>inexpensive price points, interchangability of operating environments (pick
>your Unix), etc.

Since when is the charter of this group limited to ISA?  
Are you telling us that MCA-based (Micro Channel) machines don't belong
here?  Remember, ISC is shipping their current 2.0.2 release for MCA
bus also.  Do you want MCA people kicked out into a separate newsgroup?

>Such a machine IS a real computer.  It has 3-5X the power of a Vax 780,

yeah, but who says the VAX 780 is a "real computer"?  :-] :-] :-]

>Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl)

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