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Article #1191Re: What's Nu for VME.....
From: clewis
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1986 19:10
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1986 19:10
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In article <2880@rsch.WISC.EDU> mcvoy@rsch.WISC.EDU (Lawrence W. McVoy) writes:
>In article <984@hounx.UUCP> hudson@hounx.UUCP (C.HUDSON) writes:
>>It follows that Motorola designs its 680** series to work well with
>>the VME and would encourage the use of the VME. It seems very unlikely
>>that a 680** box manufacturer would use anything but a VME bus. I'll
>>stick my neck out and state "All 680** box-makers use the VME bus."
>
>I love when somebody makes a blanket statement like this :-)
So do I - a single Spectrix XL machine has the following "buses": Multibus,
Intel iLBX (actually, Multibus P2 connector), X-Bus (extension of 68020
pins), MX-bus (ribbon-cable), Intel iSBX bus and the FIFO. Not a VMEbus in
the lot! :-)
--
Chris Lewis
Spectrix Microsystems Inc,
UUCP: {utzoo|utcs|yetti|genat|seismo}!mnetor!spectrix!clewis
Phone: (416)-474-1955
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utcs!lsuc!mnetor!spectrix!clewis From: clewis@spectrix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.68k Subject: Re: What's Nu for VME..... Message-ID: <183@spectrix.UUCP> Date: Thu, 30-Oct-86 14:10:51 EST Article-I.D.: spectrix.183 Posted: Thu Oct 30 14:10:51 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 30-Oct-86 22:59:21 EST References: <984@hounx.UUCP> <2880@rsch.WISC.EDU> Reply-To: clewis@spectrix.UUCP (Chris Lewis) Organization: Spectrix Microsystems Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada Lines: 18