I do want to seriously bitch-slap IBM for doing such a horrible job on the CGA card (no dual ported memory... _FOR A CARD THAT COST HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS BY ITSELF_ ) -Thom On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 3:31 PM smf <smf@null.net> wrote: > On 08/01/2019 18:48, Jim Brain wrote: > > I choose to believe, though, that the PS/2, like the Plus/4, was > > designed before the engineering team got involved, and the engineers > > just lost the fight... > > The PS/2 gets a bad press, but it's rather undeserved. > > The PC clones adopted quite a few things from the PS/2 anyway, they just > didn't skipped Micro Channel Architecture because of patents. > > But MCA was pretty awesome compared to ISA. > > It seems that IBM sucks because they didn't design something good and > give it away for free. > > > >Received on 2019-01-08 23:02:38
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