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Originally Posted by elcreative
And then we'd have piles of assorted hardware and incompatible pieces just like the PC model...
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You mean like how things were until the late '90s? Even after the ISA bus became standard and hardware developers stopped using excessively proprietary connectors, there was no guarantee hardware would work properly. You had IRQs to configure, drivers to install, versions to manually track, and all that. You also had to have the right ribbon cables, right edge card cables, and even the right cables to your printer and all that. Some of them might even physically fit, but be electrically incompatible. And devices that required their own controller card because the maker didn't want to use an existing standard.
NuBus tried to solve all those problems, but putting a controller chip on the motherboard was just too much to ask.