It's a cool, revolutionary concept [1] but it would have overshadowed the Mac, which would have gone from being the star attraction to an optional add-on. Ther

It's a cool, revolutionary concept [1] but it would have overshadowed the Mac, which would have gone from being the star attraction to an optional add-on. There would also have been potential problems with manufs copying the bus spec and making their own hardware. Working through whether it would have been a good thing or a bad one is a very interesting case study. I suspect it could have been pushed towards being a good thing, but not without a lot of friction and changes in a company that was basically set up for commodity single-box products. [1] Actually it nearly isn't. It looks like a modular bus broken out into boxes - so basically S-100 or ISA, but with separate cases instead of cards. Which makes me wonder about potential speed issues. But it looks like a revolutionary concept, because it's much cleaner and more designer-y than anything else that was around.