What Happened on September 25th
September 25, 1987
IBM Announces "Micro Channel Architecture"
IBM announces plans to develop a new design for transmitting information within a computer, called Micro Channel Architecture, which it said could transfer data at 160 million bytes per second or eight times faster than the fastest speed at the time.
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Although IBM was hoping to make its system the industry standard, manufacturers of IBM-compatible computers largely chose other methods.