XTIDE controller now available

[Ethan Dicks]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Patrick Finnegan
<pat at computer-refuge.org> wrote:
> On Monday 05 October 2009, afra at aurigae.demon.co.uk wrote:
>> Now what we really need is an MCA IDE controler........that might be
>>  a little harder, did IBM ever release the documentation for MCA or
>>  do they still want $$$$ fo a  license. I've only ever seen one other
>>  brand of machines that use MCA (made by Research Machines).
>
> NCR also made Microchannel machines, including some quite large ones
> (Worldmark 5100, which at some point I had a couple of).

I worked with some large NCR MCA machines in the late 1990s when I was
at Lucent.  Imagine a machine larger than a VAX 11/750 with four
Pentium-90 processors, multiple MCA buses and many SCSI cards on those
MCA buses and many, many disks... the scary part was it was still so
PC-compatible that it could still boot DOS and run Doom.

-ethan