From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , "Rich"  wrote:
>    Do you mean the 16-bit mca adapter IDs though would run out if there
>were 64K unique devices?  The one that lacks the mechanisms present in
>PCI to identify compatible devices?

That's the one. The one that's been working since the 80's. The one that,
like IPv4, proved to have more than enough IDs available for the designers'
foreseeable future.
And take a look in recent threads in comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware by UZnal
regarding the Spock and XGA drivers from Windows 98 to see how clueless
Microsoft were at "identifying compatible devices" for Micro
Channel. (In summary, he's used the DDK to figure out why the drivers have
never worked right, and fixed them.)

>   I did find an interesting list at
>http://www.mcamafia.de/mcapage0/mca.dat.
>This is what a mca enthusiest has come up with.  Sad.

There are many such lists around. I have a printed catalog listing over a
thousand Micro Channel adapters and their manufacturers. Very useful when
you come across an unidentified adapter. (You may dismiss old computer
hardware as irrelevant, but tinkering with old computers is no different
than, say, tinkering with old cars.)

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