MCA

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MCA Trademark; Abbrev. for micro channel architecture. An IBM bus structure for personal computers that was introduced in 1987 with the IBM PS/2, models 50 and above, and is the successor to the structures used in the IBM PCs. It was made necessary by the requirements of 32-bit microprocessors. See also EISA.

A Dictionary of Computing JOHN DAINTITH

MCA

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MCA Management Consultants' Association
• Manufacturing Chemists' Association
• Master of Commerce and Administration
• Matrimonial Causes Act (1937)
• Computing, trademark micro channel architecture
• monetary compensatory amount(s)
• Electronics multichannel (or multiple channel) analyser
• multicritria analysis
• multiple classification analysis

The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations FRAN ALEXANDER , PETER BLAIR , JOHN DAINTITH , ALICE GRANDISON , VALERIE ILLINGWORTH , ELIZABETH MARTIN , ANNE STIBBS , JUDY PEARSALL , and SARA TULLOCH