[rescue] DEFPA Programming Docs?

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Tue Jan 21 02:46:35 CST 2003


On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 02:28 AM, Bjorn Ramqvist wrote:
>>> is "only" a question of a QBus attachment.... Wouldn't a MicroVAX II
>>> with its 0.9 VUPs (=MIPS) on a 100 MBit/s link be nice? ;-)
>>
>>    Dude...do the math, FDDI is faster than Qbus! ;)
>>
>>    That said, I have a FDDI interface in my 4000/700a.  I just got 
>> that
>> running a few weeks ago; I can say I'm really glad DEC decided to put
>> so much stuff on the later 4000-series CPUs to keep it off the Qbus!
>
> But you have to admit... there's something cute about Qbus. :-)

   Oh don't get me wrong...I love Qbus.  It's just not very fast by 
today's standards, that's all.

         -Dave

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