Subject: Re: Oooooh... IDE to Q-bus/Unibus adapters.
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: emanuel stiebler <emu@ecubics.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 07/07/1999 16:11:20
----- Original Message -----
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
To: <tls@rek.tjls.com>
Cc: Brian D Chase <bdc@world.std.com>; <port-vax@netbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: Oooooh... IDE to Q-bus/Unibus adapters.
> On Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:09:27 -0400
> Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 01:52:01PM -0700, Brian D Chase wrote:
> > > Hey... how complex are USB controllers? Or I should ask, how
difficult
> > > would it be to adapt an ISA USB controller to DEC's Q-bus Q22 spec?
> >
> > There are ISA USB controllers? The only ones I've seen are for PCI...
>
> Yah, I've certainly never seen an ISA USB controller...
So we have here the same problem as we have on the PMAX. No easy way to go
for an USB interface. But I guess a IEEE 1394 would be more interesting ;-))
just my $ 0.02
cheers,
emanuel