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Worse was Micro-channel PCs from IBM, you could not put a card in a slot unless you had a driver that supported that particular slot. You could have more slots

Worse was Micro-channel PCs from IBM, you could not put a card in a slot unless you had a driver that supported that particular slot. You could have more slots than cards but found where you HAD to put one card would conflict with another card that needed the same slots.

wpietri 4y ago
It's amazing we didn't all end up alcoholics, really.
tadfisher 4y ago
I wonder if, in the parallel universe where IBM implemented bus-mastering for MCA, they would still be in the PC market. Just about all the other PS/2 upgrades were adopted; VGA, PS/2 mouse/keyboard, 72-pin RAM.