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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (10987)9/24/1998 6:59:00 PM
From: rudedog  Respond to of 74651
 
MCA solved some of the problems, but lost out to EISA which solved them in a more compatible way. But it shows that even then people knew how lame ISA was.



To: Charles Tutt who wrote (10987)9/24/1998 8:08:00 PM
From: ericneu  Respond to of 74651
 
> I guess MCA was ahead of its time?

MCA's problems were twofold.

First, MCA was proprietary and carried ugly licensing terms. IIRC, IBM was charging a 5% royalty on MCA-based hardware. In addition, in order to receive an MCA license, a company had to cough up BACK royalties for all previously sold IBM-compatibles, even though they didn't use MCA.

Second, IBM chose to deliberately cripple MCA so that they could announce "New & Improved" MCA down the road.

- Eric


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