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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: NuBus popularity
Message-ID: <1990Dec13.034738.455@kithrup.COM>
Date: 13 Dec 90 03:47:38 GMT
References: <47320@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
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In article <47320@apple.Apple.COM> aek@Apple.COM (Al Kossow) writes:
>Over a hundred thousand machines in the field, and dozens of third-party
>card vendors isn't popular ??

Uhm... by that definition, one of the most popular buses has been the Apple
2 bus.

"Popular" means several things.  You are assuming that a single vendor's
adoption makes a bus popular.  Piercarlo (rightly, IMNSHO) assumes that
multiple vendors' adoption makes it popular.

Can one plug any of those third-party cards into any other NuBus machine?

No?  Yep, I can see how popular the NuBus is then.

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