#IDE – SCSI
Your technical arguments are sound and it not only makes it more difficult for
hardware manufactures but consumers who get confused by the proliferation of
different standards. As a whole it hurts the industry, but as we've seen with
IBM and DEC they stubbornly persist in going their own way and as a result have
been clobbered, but they just don't get it. So they cut back on staff and
plunge headlong into it again. The industry needs to rally and accept PCI as
the standard and form a committee <horrors> to agree on the development and
continuation of that standard in a practical way. Of course if that happens,
they could get hit with the "Sherman Anti-Trust" act. Maybe what's need is a
committee like "NTSC" but then the technology might stay dated for 40 years. I
don't know what the answer is, but I think we're all agreed, there should be a
standard platform and now is a critical time as NT starts to take hold. My vote
as I've said is with PCI and NT and here's hoping both can deliver as promised.
If not you can be sure other platforms will spring up, not to mention other OS.
BTW I wouldn't mind tuning in to Channel 2 if it was devoted to Computer
Related stuff. Don't you think its about time computers had their own channel?
<g>
-JE