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A small research group I am a member of recently had donated to it
a Floating Point Systems M64/330 Vector Processor. According to
the blurb that came with it, it was designed to be used in conjunction
with a Microvax running MicroVMS. This front end was linked to the
VP via the Q22 bus, and communicated with it via a program called
'SJE464'.

Unfortunately, we never got a MicroVax with the VP, so it's just
sitting there with nothing to do. We have our own MicroVax, but
it's running Ultrix. However, it seems to us that the 'SJE464'
program is simply some sort of fairly intelligent communications
program that talks to the VP, lets it access files on the MicroVax,
passes our commands down to it, etc. So we figure we might just be
able to write our own version of it. However, we're a little
uncertain as to where to start. Does anyone know exactly how the
MicroVax talks to the VP via this program?

Also, is there an ftp site anywhere with sources/docs for FPS M64
series of systems?

Any help would be appreciated.

Robert.
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