bob@imspw6.UUCP (Bob Burch) (07/05/88)
The only historical analogy I know of for IBM's policies vis a vis the MCA bus involves the reply which Friar Rubruck made to the pope after returning from Mangu Khan's ordu at Kara-Korum and witnessing the preparations for Hulagu's invasion of Syria and the levant. The pope inquired concerning the mongols' intentions, and Friar Rubruck replied simply "they mean to reduce the entire world to slavery". Ted Holden HTE