All interrupt request signals were " public " on MCA permitting any card on the bus to function as an I / O processor for direct service of I / O device interrupts.

Stein, who by this time was the sole owner of MCA, decided to take the company public by giving 51 % of his ownership of MCA to his employees, which included a 20 % stake for Wasserman.

The company went public on the New York Stock Exchange and was incorporated as MCA Inc. on November 10, 1958.

Golden's departure was preceded by much discussion — both by the public and other members of the group — about his " mountain man " appearance, and lifestyle after he stopped cutting his hair and beard altogether, as well as his cutting solo material for MCA Records, releasing the critically acclaimed ' American Vagabond ' in 1986.

But Tunku's prompt public support for the Alliance helped Tan Cheng Lock to resist pressure from the other MCA leaders.

In 1994, Universal / MCA bought a 45 % stake in Interplay, which later went public in 1998.

Starting in 2002, the MCA began commissioning artists and architects to design and construct public art for the front plaza.

There was speculation that a gag order may be imposed by the MCA on their press statements before they are released to the public to " ensure maximum effectiveness ".

MCA called this re-engineering of the system ' Sensurround Mod-II ' and the ' public ' name of the system was changed from just ' Sensurround ' to the ' Sensurround Special Effects System.

She married Jack Bean, a talent agent and public relations executive for MCA, in San Francisco, California on November 18, 1954.

The MCA leaders were torn between the need to defend their own community ’ s interests and the need to maintain good relations with UMNO.

Much of the losses came from the MCA, thus straining relations between the two parties.

With relations between MCA and the band's management hitting a low point the band left MCA.

* MCA Inc., a now defunct company ( originally called Music Corporation of America ) and its subsidiary companies:

To address anti-trust concerns, MCA set up a separate company, EMKA, Ltd., to sell these films to television.

After a decade of operating through Warner, when its contract with the company expired, the label was sold to MCA Music Entertainment ( later renamed Universal Music Group ) in 1990.

Geffen's absorption of the MCA and DreamWorks labels, along with its continuing to sign new acts such as Ashlee Simpson, Angels & Airwaves, Snoop Dogg, and The Game, had boosted the company to the extent that it began gaining equal footing with the main Interscope label, leading some industry insiders to speculate that it could revert back to operating as an independently managed imprint at UMG again.

Pressure from activist groups opposed to gangsta rap, however, later led to parent company Time Warner's decision to sell Atlantic's stake in the label to MCA in 1995.

MCA / Universal and the latter company would become the sole owners in 1987 ( each owning 50 %).

In 1997, three years after the Paramount / Viacom merger, that company sold its stake in the networks to Universal ( which, along with parent MCA, changed ownership twice earlier in the 1990s: to Matsushita in 1991, and then Seagrams in 1995, the latter company making Universal Studios the corporate name of its media division in 1997 ).

Both the film and Thomas Hauser's book The Execution of Charles Horman were removed from the United States market following a lawsuit filed against Costa-Gavras and Universal Pictures's parent company MCA by former Ambassador Nathaniel Davis and two others for defamation of character.

" and " How does telling a Malay bus driver that he should support the party of his Malay director ( UMNO ) and the Chinese bus conductor to join another party of his Chinese director ( MCA ) — how does that improve the standards of the Malay bus driver and the Chinese bus conductor who are both workers in the same company?

American Decca bought Universal-International in 1952, and eventually merged with MCA in 1962, becoming a subsidiary company under MCA.

The Decca label is currently in use by Universal Music Group worldwide ; this is possible because Universal Studios ( which officially dropped the MCA name after the Seagram buyout in 1997 ) acquired PolyGram, British Decca's parent company in 1998, thus consolidating Decca trademark ownership.

* November 16 – Infinity Records is shut down and absorbed into parent company MCA.

After Diamond had signed a deal with MCA Records, whose label at the time was Uni ( after MCA's parent company, Universal Pictures ), he moved to Los Angeles in 1970.

The Extra-Terrestrial and was the parent company of the Uni Records label, by then referred to as the MCA Records label, for which Diamond had recorded for years, briefly threatened legal action against both Diamond and Columbia Records.

Gordy relocated Motown Records to Los Angeles in 1972 and there it remained an independent company until June 28, 1988, when Gordy sold the company to MCA and Boston Ventures ( which took over full ownership of Motown in 1991 ), then to PolyGram in 1994, before being sold again to MCA Records ' successor Universal Music Group, when it acquired The PolyGram Group.

A revolving door of executives were appointed by MCA to run the company, beginning with Berry Gordy's immediate successor, Jheryl Busby.

Busby quarreled with MCA, alleging that the company did not give Motown's product adequate attention or promotion.

In 1991, Motown sued MCA to have its distribution deal with the company terminated, and began releasing its product through PolyGram.

The label's numbering system was combined with those of Tamla and Gordy in 1982, and the label ( and company ) was purchased by MCA in 1988. Notable Motown artists have included Mary Wells, The Supremes, Four Tops, The Jackson 5, Boyz II Men, Commodores, Lionel Richie, Dazz Band, Brian McKnight, 98 Degrees, and Erykah Badu.

This technical leadership and the rivalry with IBM was emphasized when the Systempro server was launched in late 1989-this was a true server product with standard support for a second CPU and RAID, but also the first product to feature the EISA bus, designed in reaction to IBM's MCA ( MicroChannel Architecture ).

Compaq shelved the idea of cloning MCA and formed an alliance with HP and seven others to develop EISA.

) This provided virtually all of the technical advantages of MCA, while remaining compatible with existing 8-bit and 16-bit cards, and ( most enticing to system and card makers ) minimal licensing cost.

The result of this was that the PAS won a number of Malay seats from UMNO, but many Chinese voters disapproved of this unnatural alliance with the Islamist PAS, causing the DAP to lose many of its seats to the MCA, including that of its veteran leader, Lim Kit Siang.

Except for the Superman cartoons and the features sold to MCA ( to end up with Universal ), most television prints of these films have had their titles remade to remove most traces of their connection to Paramount – the original copyright lines were left intact on Popeye cartoons ( the Popeye cartoons have been restored for DVD release with the original Paramount titles ).

When the talent agency Music Corporation of America ( better known as MCA ), then wielding major influence on Paramount policy, offered $ 50 million for 750 features released prior to December 1, 1949 ( with payment to be spread over many years ), a cash-strapped Paramount thought it had made the best possible deal.

She also successfully sued MCA / Decca with the assistance of noted entertainment attorney Cy Godfrey.

It was founded in 1991 under the name SMSG, Inc. ( for San Mateo Software Group ) by Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins in a partnership with seven companies, including LG, Matsushita ( now Panasonic ), AT & T, MCA, Time Warner and Electronic Arts.

In 1974, Shepherd released her debut studio album Cybill Does It ... To Cole Porter for MCA Records and again teamed with Peter Bogdanovich for the title role in Daisy Miller, based on the Henry James novella.

* The 1988 introduction by the " Gang of Nine " companies of a rival bus, Extended Industry Standard Architecture, intended to compete with, rather than copy, MCA.

* 1975-Golden Favorites ( compilation with unreleased tracks ) ( MCA Coral 7845P )

Though Geffen had been substantially a pop-rock label, its absorption of MCA ( and its back catalogues ) led to a more diverse roster ; with former MCA artists such as Mary J. Blige, The Roots, Blink-182, Rise Against, and Common now featured on the label.

A few months later, Basie quit MCA and signed with the William Morris Agency, who got them better fees.

Gira's disillusionment with their Uni / MCA exploits led to White Light from the Mouth of Infinity ( 1991 ), a successful blending of earlier hard rock and later pop styles.

MCA Records forced the band to change the album cover in Poland and replaced it with another image.

In August 1972 Camel signed with MCA Records and their eponymous debut album was released six months later.