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Re: EISA Peripherals: Information Wanted!

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From: Barton A. Fisk
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 1990 21:07
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In article <13@tandon.UUCP> tom@tandon.UUCP (Tom Friel) writes:
>Sorry to post this to the entire world, but there are activities involving
>EISA bus peripherals going on everywhere.  I have yet to see any discussions
>on the net regarding EISA boards.  (Perhaps this means users don't yet
>care? :-)  ).
>
I care, we just bought a SystemPro and would love to see discussion on
EISA.

>In addition, I would like to know what SCO, Interactive, AT&T, Intel,
>Everex, and other Unix manufacturers are contemplating for EISA.  What I
>know to date is that SCO intends to offer add-in option diskettes to basic
>SCO Unix to enable >16MB memory addressing, and perhaps is working with
>some of the above vendors.

I do have drivers from SCO for the EISA drive array and the 525 MEG
tape unit.

Also, the release notes for 3.2.2 state that it supports 64M of main
memory.

I have not installed so can't say more, but will later.

Bart
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From: barton@holston.UUCP (Barton A. Fisk)
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Subject: Re: EISA Peripherals: Information Wanted!
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