On Mon, Sep 15, 1997 at 10:42:51AM -0400, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:

> Remember Micro Channel Architecture? That was similarly closed, wasn't it?
> At the very least, it was a new thing, and it was more strictly controlled
> than ISA, or whatever its primary (and more popular) competitor was.

Yeah, but if m$ doesn't allow their "software" to run on anything but
these machines, I20 _will_ be a success.

> My crystal ball tells me that I20 will show up mainly in computer-oriented
> history books. After all, despite marketing, and, verily, despite technical
> merit, these things *are* decided by our wallets.

Then why is windoze so popular? :-(

  -jm


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