Micro Channel Architecture (MCA) was a proprietary 16- or 32-bit parallel computer bus introduced by IBM in 1987 which was used on PS/2 and other computers until the mid 1990s. It superseded the ISA bus and was itself subsequently superseded by the PCI bus architecture.
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