Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Jan 2000 20:33:33 -0500 | From | "Michael H. Warfield" <> | Subject | Re: IBM & Linux |
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 10:30:30PM +0000, Adam Fritzler wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Kevin A. Burton wrote:
> > MicroChannel? Is that still being used or are these just old cards?
> I do not know of any manufacturers still making machines or cards based on > MicroChannel. However, there is a very sizable user base of older > machines that use it.
Actually, I do. I helped get the Computone-II Multiport serial card drivers into the Linux kernel. Computone does make an MCA card. The decision was up for grabs whether to support the MCA card. We decided not to. I put it on my web site under things we weren't going to support along with the question "does anyone really care?" I have yet to hear a single peep. The board exists and is in production. It is not supported under Linux like it's ISA or PCI brethren.
> Production of MCA RS/6ks was killed in 1996/7 (iirc), I'm betting those > were the last to use MCA. Though there might have been a few MCA PS/2's > produced around then as well.
MCA was a good idea for it's time. I worked on several cards designed for MCA. Too bad IBM decided to make it an example where intellectual property trumps good idea and destroys it.
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