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

[Dave McGuire]

On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 05:17 PM, Michael Thompson wrote:
> There was a little issue with the $250,000 license fee to develop 
> boards on
> the VAXBI bus that killed its acceptance.

   They sure did have some suits working there, didn't they.

   "Hey, let's design this great and wonderful bus, and then let's make 
sure it never gets used by anything!"  There were, what, maybe fifteen 
or twenty BI boards produced by ALL manufacturers combined?

        -Dave

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