From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 10 12:13:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hostigos.otherwhen.com (mavery-gw.pernet.net [205.229.2.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAF4F14E37 for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 12:13:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mavery@mail.otherwhen.com) Received: from mail.otherwhen.com (mail.2.229.205.in-addr.arpa [205.229.2.19] (may be forged)) by hostigos.otherwhen.com (8.8.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA10526 for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 14:23:36 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199905101923.OAA10526@hostigos.otherwhen.com> Received: from PORKY/SpoolDir by mail.otherwhen.com (Mercury 1.44); 10 May 99 14:13:25 -0600 Received: from SpoolDir by PORKY (Mercury 1.44); 10 May 99 14:13:05 -0600 From: "Mike Avery" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 14:13:03 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: ISA question Reply-To: mavery@mail.otherwhen.com References: <37372867.6C623331@us.ibm.com> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.10) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10 May 99, at 21:50, Sergey Ayukov (mailing lists) wrote: > On Mon, 10 May 1999, Christina Strobl wrote: > > Hello, I am a technical editor at IBM researching terms to determine > > whether they should be capitalized. I was wondering why you are > > capitalizing "Industry Standard Architecture"? Is it a proprietary usage > > or really just generic terminology? > it is a specific term, not just generic terminology. I even suspect it was > introduced by IBM, but I might be mistaken ;-) I think you're mistaken. I believe ISA was coined by the cloners so they wouldn't have to use the dreaded name "IBM" any more than absolutely necessary. So, "it's an ISA bus machine", not "it's an IBM compatible machine" was the marketing ploy. The cloners felt if they referred to IBM too often that they might lose sales to IBM. (We could continue that talk into IBM's attempt to re-capture the market through MCA; Compaq's attempt to resist via EISA; and the evolution of PCI - Intel's slightly more successful attempt to control the hardware world.) Mike ====================================================================== Mike Avery MAvery@mail.otherwhen.com (409)-842-2942 (work) ICQ: 16241692 * Spam is for lusers who can't get business any other way * A Randomly Selected Thought For The Day: IMHO: I Make Harmful Odors...? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message