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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: AT bus in 2000 and 3000
Message-ID: <1991May8.224541.17086@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 8 May 91 22:45:41 GMT
References: <0kqF24w163w@dworkin.Amber.COM> <1991May6.114751.5024@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <1991May8.032757.12335@cs.cornell.edu>
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As quoted from <1991May8.032757.12335@cs.cornell.edu> by johnhlee@CS.Cornell.EDU (John H. Lee):
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| >PS/2 is rapidly growing with dedicated processores on almost every card
| >in the computer from Joystick Cards( :-) ) to Ethernet Cards.
| >
| >IBM didn't steal this, they invented it.
| 
| Eh?  EISA is the industry standard invented by a collaboration of equipment
| manufacturers, which includes practically everyone *but* IBM.  PS/2's use the
| competing standard developed by IBM, Microchannel.  Expansion bus cards with
| dedicated CPU's aren't new, either.
+---------------

Hint:  Why did IBM call it *Micro*channel?  Dedicated CPUs for I/O devices are
NOT AT ALL new... and were invented by guess who, who's been calling them
"channels" since at least the sixties....

++Brandon
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