[rescue] Personal Progressions

Big Endian bigendian at mac.com
Fri Feb 8 22:02:50 CST 2002


>Big Endian skrev:
>
>>>Big Endian skrev:
>>>
>>>>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.

I've had bus conflicts w/ nubus.  I could reconfigure the MCA 
machine, even without files.  I've YET to see a bus that does that 
other than MCA.

daniel
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