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From: gary@percival.UUCP (Gary Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IEEE standard IBM PC ?
Message-ID: <470@percival.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Mar-87 19:40:18 EST
Article-I.D.: percival.470
Posted: Wed Mar 18 19:40:18 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Mar-87 07:37:11 EST
References: <4373@utcsri.UUCP>
Reply-To: gary@percival.UUCP (Gary Wells)
Followup-To: IEEE standard IBM PC
Organization: Percy's UNIX, Portland, OR.
Lines: 14
Keywords: IBM PC, obsolete, "standardization"
Summary: Snide comment about IBM buss
Xref: mnetor comp.arch:626 comp.misc:375 comp.sys.ibm.pc:2616


This seems a little like trying to standardize the height of automobile tail    fins or the calcifcation process of dinosuar remains.  The IBM PC was obsolete
when it was introduced, was purposefully not well defined, and is not
particularly well suited to current implementing current & near future 
technology.  Standardization will not cure the compatiblity problems that 
exist, and the cloners will likely ignore it anyway.  Better to spend 
precious time (that nobody I know of has any of to waste) on standardizing
a buss that we'd LIKE to have.
.

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