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Line 29: === Marketshare issues === A final problem was that IBM had lost control of the hardware market for PCs. Anyone could create an ISA card and plug it into ~~anyone's~~any ISA bus-equiped computer. By creating a new standard, IBM would regain control, ~~and this time~~via the ~~specifications would~~required ~~require licensing~~licencing. This ~~largely~~motivation ~~explains~~for ~~why they created~~creating MCA, as opposed to selecting an existing standard like [[NuBus]], ~~which~~was ~~would~~based ~~have~~purely ~~saved~~on ~~them~~the amoney ~~lot~~IBM offelt ~~time~~it ~~and~~could ~~money~~make through the licencing model. == Design feautres ==

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