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In article <1992Aug20.115911.24684@engage.pko.dec.com>, jackson@pravda.enet.dec.com () writes:
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>In article <1992Aug14.151407.1@wharfin.mit.edu>, lang@wharfin.mit.edu writes:
>|>
>|>Has anyone in net.land actually installed a DWCTX Turbochannel adapter in a
>|>VAXStation 4000-60? I have had one on order for about 4 months, and was told
>|>recently (in the last day or so) that the DWCTX is on engineering hold, thus I
>|>have not recieved on yet. Could someone please enlighted me and or the rest of
>|>the net as to the status of the DWCTX? I have a PMAZ SCSI controller and a
>|>stack of CD-ROM drives that I would really like to get on-line.
>|>
>
>The DWCTX requires VMS V5.5-2 to be useful and is not supported in a prior 
>version.  This version of VMS will ship in the next few weeks, along with
>the DWCTX. 
>
>|>I suspect what happened is DEC picked a part number out of the air, and then
>|>decided to see how many people wanted it before they actually put
>|>engineering effort into designing the damn thing.
>
>Ah, a cynic.  Not true though.  We had originally intended to get the 
>software support into V5.5-1 and didn't make it, thus we've had to 
>wait until V5.5-2 to get the software "in there"  We also had some last 
>minute changes to ensure that the implementation was the same on the 
>Model 90 as well as the Model 60 (so you can use the same module)
>
>
>William M. Jackson
>Workstation Product Marketing Manager
>Workstation Engineering
>Digital Equipment Corporation
>146 Main Street
>Maynard, MA 01754
>
>Mail:	Jackson@pravda.enet.dec.com

What I want to know is why you chose to support only one turbo channel 
slot on the model 60/90?  This is characteristic of dec's lack of foresight.
(The only thing worse was giving the 3100's no bus at all and a poorly 
implemented scsi adapter, the worst I've ever seen.)

When you consider things on the horizon like multimedia, fddi, need for more 
scsi devices, etc... this is clearly stupid.  You could have made an optional 
multi-turbo-slot card...  Or is it that you wanted to make the model 90
instantly obsolete when the alphas come out so you could double your sales???  

What does digital have against good workstations anyway???

Tom Newark

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