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by jacobush 2482 days ago
There's no need to "think" about it. Even old 16-bit Zorro had DMA and plug-and-play, which actually worked. ISA was a shit-show and often 8-bit wide, too. All PCs at the time needed networking adapter for Ethernet and the Mac network was dog slow. (I won't go into the software side, I don't have time right now.)