[rescue] Personal Progressions

Big Endian bigendian at mac.com
Fri Feb 8 13:59:17 CST 2002


>On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
>
>>  > > Why is that machine so special to you?
>>  >
>>  > Thats a *really* stupid question to ask in this forum.
>>
>>  Err, we were talking about an old Peecee.  Thus, it isn't such a stupid
>>  question.
>
>It's not even close to being your average everyday piece-o-shit PC.

MCA was a *HUGE* improvement from the previous ISA and EISA systems. 
It was the first *TRUE* plug and play system that actually worked. 
It was faster than ISA and much more flexible.  I'd rather have MCA 
on an rs6k but its a *LOT* better than most other expansion busses.

daniel
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