aek@Apple.COM (Al Kossow) (12/13/90)
>Hasn't it already happened and nobody noticed? But NUbus has so far not >been incredibly popular, which is a real pity. Apple more or less killed >it by adopting it in a nonstandard version (strange form factor mostly). Over a hundred thousand machines in the field, and dozens of third-party card vendors isn't popular ?? -- Al Kossow @ Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA Internet: aek@apple.com Phone: (408) 974-5136
sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) (12/13/90)
In article <47320@apple.Apple.COM> aek@Apple.COM (Al Kossow) writes: >Over a hundred thousand machines in the field, and dozens of third-party >card vendors isn't popular ?? Uhm... by that definition, one of the most popular buses has been the Apple 2 bus. "Popular" means several things. You are assuming that a single vendor's adoption makes a bus popular. Piercarlo (rightly, IMNSHO) assumes that multiple vendors' adoption makes it popular. Can one plug any of those third-party cards into any other NuBus machine? No? Yep, I can see how popular the NuBus is then. -- Sean Eric Fagan | "I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it; sef@kithrup.COM | I had a bellyache at the time." -----------------+ -- The Turtle (Stephen King, _It_) Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.