[rescue] Question: VME SBC on EBay

[Dave McGuire]

On July 31, Gavin Hubbard wrote:
> Please excuse my ignorance about VME system, but if I plugged the following
> VME-bus single board computer into a Sparcserver 690MP backplane would it
> actually work?

  Hmm, interesting question.  Seems to me it'd be mostly a matter of
software.

> I never realised that so many companies still made VME
> hardware.

  VME is pretty big nowadays...keep in mind, it has evolved along with
the rest of the computing world.  Just like cars, there's "old" VME
that's pretty much obsolete, and there's "new" VME which kicks all
kinds of ass.

        -Dave

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