Seems that IBM Corp has hit a snag with its schizophrenic approach to the Micro Channel bus: introduced originally in an effort to retake control of the desktop standard, IBM had hoped that most major manufacturers would come around to licensing it, giving it a slice of everybody’s action; latterly, with that clearly not happening, it has been trying to encourage licensees, but too late – now, it seems, many government departments around the world have decreed that the Micro Channel is not open, shutting out the high-end PS/2s from many lucrative contracts, and IBM indicates that it is going to have to offer PS/2 models with the AT bus right up through the line – and, OS/2 2.0 being a 32-bit operating system, most galling of all, it looks as if it will have to use the EISA bus with all full 32-bit processors.
