🚀 go-pugleaf

I was just looking at some of the product brochures for the new
Macintosh Portable. Everything sounded great until I read the
following paragraph:

	Processor Direct Slot (PDS)
	* The PDS is a high-performance slot connected to the
	microprocessor bus that will support one expansion
	card. (Note: The PDS is not compatible with the SE,
	SE/30, or NuBus expansion slots.)

Maybe I'm being short-sighted here, but it seems incredibly stupid
for Apple to have four totally incompatible interface slots. Only
IBM would do something this stupid. It would seem to me that the
smart thing to do would be to make ONE type of interface slot that
would be the same across the entire Macintosh family. What happened?
Did the interface guys get bored with three totally incompatible
interfaces and decide to design a fourth just so the engineers at
other companies would have something new to do? Why couldn't someone
have designed things so that there were at most three types of
interfaces (best bet: SE/30 and Mac Portable sharing the same type
of interface). Sure it would have been a little bit more complicated,
but I think the payoffs would have been well worth the effort. Where
am I missing the boat?


						-- Scott Storkel


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