[rescue] Apple WWDC Summary

Joshua D. Boyd jdboyd at celestrion.celestrion.net
Tue Jun 24 16:03:52 CDT 2003


On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:57:28PM -0400, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:

> Howevermuch the ISA bus sucks technically, it has turned out to be
> remarkably durable, and, in doing so, has increased the PC's perceived
> financial advantage over the Mac in the corporate world.  From 1983 until
> very recently, any PC you bought could use ISA cards, and, more importantly
> to some folks, it could use the ones you already had.   During that same
> time period, didn't Macs go through 2 or 3 (or maybe 4)
> mutually-incompatible bus designs?  <something> then NuBus then PDS then
> PCI?

Were there any PDS only machines?  If so, they must have been the bottom
of the low end.



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