Microchannel? Narrow Urethra?

• “IBM proprietary” bus meant to extend the ISA bus

• Primarily used in PS/2 and RS/6000 computers

• 8, 16, 32-bit transfers

• Introduced concept of “bus mastering”

• Not widely implemented and was rivaled by the EISA bus architecture

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