Yup. Microchannel had higher performance than ISA, but you were locked in to IBM. People instead wanted lower cost and the freedom to be able to use all the e

Yup. Microchannel had higher performance than ISA, but you were locked in to IBM. People instead wanted lower cost and the freedom to be able to use all the existing cards. This was a fundamental misunderstanding by IBM. The PC exploded, not because it was from IBM, but because it was not locked down. IBM wanted to re-create their locked-down world; the market was never going to go where IBM wanted it to.