[Coco] Just a thought

[Juan Castro]

Wasn't VESA, it was MCA, in the PS/2 line of computers in 1987. Yep, that's
where that connector comes from. And the VGA one too.
Em 27/03/2015 09:26, "Francis Swygert" <farna at att.net> escreveu:

> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 17:11:31 -0700
> From: Steve Batson <steve at batsonphotography.com>
>
> I guess if you are to dream or imagine, you may as well go all the way.
> Companies have never worked well together back then or now, unless there
> was something in it for both. A bunch of competitors don't get together and
> design the next great thing that they will all compete on. Creating
> standards and agreeing on something that all can benefit from is one thing,
> or creating a technology that all could use is nice. But expecting several
> companies to work together with their competitors to create the next thing
> that they will compete with each other isn't reasonable. They could love
> each other, but giving away secrets and information to the competitor is
> just not wise.
>
> But, dream on. ;)==================================
> Exactly! If IBM could "take back" what became an open standard they would
> have -- and tried to with the VESA buss (I think that's the one...). They
> used open standards at first to get a small computer on market quickly and
> cheaply. They had no idea that it would take off like it did or they would
> have made it more proprietary and harder to compete with. The IBM
> architecture became a standard by accident, not on purpose!
> The last FHL computers shared a common architecture and were 6809 and
> 68000 compatible by changing/adding processor cards. The "Tomcat" TC-9
> (OS-9 compatible, DECB emulation never quite panned out) and the TC-70 both
> shared the same backplane. I seem to recall a couple other backplane style
> computers, mostly S100 buss, that could use one of several different
> processor cards to be whatever kind of computer you wanted, but use the
> same peripheral cards (some generic). Most would only use one processor
> card though.
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