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Article #5150Re: DECstation 3100 info.
From: Arthur Stine
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1989 02:40
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1989 02:40
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From article <617@blake.acs.washington.edu>, by lgy@blake.acs.washington.edu (Laurence Yaffe): > > Does getting 3rd party SCSI drives also entail getting a device driver > from the 3rd party vendor, or are all SCSI drive alike? (I know next to > nothing about SCSI devices.) > > On an unrelated note, does someone know if the keyboard of the DECstation 3100 > has a reasonably-placed escape key? > -- It depends on the third party device. Disks should be just fine, since DEC supplies a device driver for the SCSI drives (although I am unsure of whether they check for their device types explicitly or not. I think their intention though is to make it as flexible as adding 3rd party disks to a Sun). Tape devices and other SCSI things will probably need their own device driver unless the device looks like a TK50Z or the RRD40 optical drive. DEC has said that they will be supporting additional SCSI devices in the future though... whatever that means... As far as the keyboard, I believe from what I have seen that the keyboard is the same as the other VAXstations, the LKxxx type keyboard, which has an escape key in a dumb place. Sorry... art stine sr network engineer clarkson u
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!abstine From: abstine@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Arthur Stine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.arch Subject: Re: DECstation 3100 info. Message-ID: <2056@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> Date: 25 Jan 89 02:40:43 GMT References: <617@blake.acs.washington.edu> Sender: abstine@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Lines: 25