IBM & Linux

[Michael H. Warfield]

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.

> af

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	Mike
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