Micro Channel architecture | |
Year created | 1987[NB 1] |
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Created by | IBM |
Supersedes | ISA |
Superseded by | PCI (1993) |
Width in bits | 16 or 32 |
Speed | 10 MHz |
Style | Parallel |
Hotplugging interface | No |
External interface | No |
Micro Channel architecture, or the Micro Channel bus, is a proprietary 16- or 32-bit parallel computer bus publicly introduced by IBM in 1987 which was used on PS/2 and other computers until the mid-1990s. Its name is commonly abbreviated as "MCA", although not by IBM. In IBM products, it superseded the ISA bus and was itself subsequently superseded by the PCI bus architecture.
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