According to Steve Woodford:
>
>I'm surprised anyone even thought about networking over the 167's SCSI
>bus, what with the onboard ethernet and the VMEbus. I guess some folks
>just like a challenge... ;-)
>

Hmmmm I think the reason was that we were not just using 167's but
also 147's which were not as rich in interfaces ;-)  We could not use
the VME bus because all the processors were not all on the same bus.
We are talking a couple of 6ft 19" racks full of cards, the processor
boards were used as controllers for various parts of a digital signal
processing chain.  Oh, and just for fun the whole thing (including the
executive) was done in a mixture of plenty of Modula-2 and some
assembly language.

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, British Aerospace Australia
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