FDDI, was: Re: [rescue] u2 drive trays

Eric Dittman dittman at dittman.net
Wed Aug 20 11:46:43 CDT 2003


>    Yeah that'd be neat...I just wish Qbus weren't so blasted SLOW.
> 
>    Qbus was a introduced as a smaller, lower-cost alternative to Unibus, 
> which runs at TWICE the speed of Qbus.  (Qbus multiplexes the address 
> and data lines on the same backplane wires) If they really had to 
> discontinue one and keep the other, they should have kept Unibus!
> 
>    So much for "newer" automatically being "better".

XMI?
VAXBI?
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Eric Dittman
dittman at dittman.net



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