[rescue] Personal Progressions

[Julius Sridhar]

On 9 Feb 2002, Iggy Drougge wrote:

> >>>MCA was a *HUGE* improvement from the previous ISA and EISA systems.
> >>>It was the first *TRUE* plug and play system that actually worked.
> >>
> >><COUGH>Zorro</COUGH>
> >>
> >>>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.
> >>
> >>On the PC, you mean.
>
> >I mean in general.  I think that MCA is superior to PCI, NUBUS, ISA,
> >EISA and a few others.  It notably doesn't include sbus, GIO, VME,
> >EBus, etc.    I've never used a Zorro based machine.  But I've had a
> >*SHITLOAD* of problems with the above mentioned bad busses on more
> >than just PCs.
>
> Nubus is IME plug and play in its purest form, unless MCA's pseudo plug and
> play, what with its ADF files.

They had the ability to do it without the ADF's.  They chose to do it with
for versatility's sake.

Peace...  Sridhar