Microsoft, Windows - conspiracy - remember HAL?

[Richard Wilson]

John Welter (jwe...@ibm.net) wrote:
: In <4bg0qt$o...@ixnews8.ix.netcom.com>, rri...@ix.netcom.com(Randy Rinker) writes:
: >In <4bd6jr$g...@bdt.bdt.com> ja...@bdt.com (Jack Beglinger) writes:
: >>
: >>rus...@computek.net (Russ McClelland) wrote:
: >>
: >>Missed one thing...
: >>
: >>Mirco Channel is still alive in high end servers - See NCR, ATT,...
: >>
: >>
: >With what, a total of 5 add-on cards still on the market? Those NCR
: >server are beaten out in benchmarks and throughput by the Compaqa which
: >are EISA only, and by others like HP that are all PCI.

: But MCA never ever has problems. It's so damn solid it's scary. And, on paper, MCA is
: able to beat PCI and EISA but nobody has ever bothered to fully exploit it because the
: market isn't big enough for MCA stuff.

: Some of us are willing to pay the extra buck for quality, not get the mass produced CRAP
: that's available for EISA or PCI which causes nightmares down the line. Don't get me wrong,
: there is good stuff for PCI and EISA but far more of it is "cheap taiwan crap" as that's what the
: majority of the customers want.

: Ever hear of a MCA server trashing data over a bus problem? Intel sure has with he PCI spec...
: And the new PCI chipsets don't even support parity, cool eh?

: Just my two bits....
: John