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		WarOnPrivacy on May 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Intel undercut a standards body to give us the PCI... Micro Channel was the IBM choice that forked universes. I guess our PCI universe is okay.

flopsamjetsam on May 23, 2024 [–]

MCA always felt like a way for IBM to bring back control to itself to me. PCI was such a nice improvement to usability e.g. auto-IRQ assignment (no more jumpers), as well as speed and bus mastering.

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