On 01/10/2017 20:46, Tom Gardner via cctalk wrote:
As best I can tell WD began publically using the term IDE for its drives sometime around 1990
Nope. I recall conversations with a small-scale developer in the UK who was creating addons and accessories for the company I worked for (Acorn Computers) in 1987-1988, and he was touting IDE as best improvement (because simpler and cheaper to interface) on ST506/ST412 interface drives for the hard drive upgrades he was about to market. I recall having to ask what IDE stood for, at the time. So it must have been in common use, at least amongst developers, by then. By 1989 there were more people using "IDE" - by that name - than anything else in the markets I was involved in.
-- Pete Pete Turnbull
