>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Frisch <mfrisch@saturn.tlug.org> writes:

Mike> At 12:45 AM 2/24/96 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
>> This is correct...I've used VME framebuffers with 4/100 cpus but
>> that's about it...I believe the VME implementation can't handle
>> bus-mastering or something like that.

Mike>         I guess I'll have to file a correction to the Sun
Mike> Hardware FAQ because it claims that the 501-1153 VME Ethernet
Mike> board will work on the 4/110.  (This is my only info source on
Mike> Sun hardware, so I trusted it...)

	I may be out of sync, too --- but don't be to quick to dismiss
this.  Someone mentioned that the VME ethernet board had it's own
memory and was a memory mapped ... not bus mastering device.  When I
had that board in my possession, I did note a grid of DRAM on it.
Probably about 512K to 1M of it.

	So... the ethernet board would be more like a framebuffer than
a SCSI controller.

Dave.

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