Talk:Open architecture

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Not a very good counter-example. My A500 had several commercially available hardware enhancements, such as a 68030 card with extra RAM.

[edit] It's about more than hardware

Certainly hardware compatibilty and commonality has a great deal to do w/ OA, but software applications have equal importance in the the OA construct. The key to OA is that is serves as a business model allowing competition in the market fostering innovation and improvement in computing systems. Much more to follow... Tomdisy 12:38, 29 August 2006 (UTC)