Subject: Re: RL01 support in NetBSD?
To: None <port-vax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: John Wilson <wilson@dbit.dbit.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/19/2000 02:37:12
>From: Nigel Johnson <nw.johnson@ieee.org>

>The RKV11-D was a whole chassis with an adapter card that
>linked into the qbus at one end.  I don't believe it was the same chassis as the
>RK11-D for Unibus, though.

I don't know about the chassis itself, but according to the description in
the '80 Microcomputer Interfaces Handbook, 3 out of 4 boards are the same
(the RKV substitutes an M7268/M7269 pair for the M7257).  Actually I'll bet
the packaging was a big pain since Q-bus boxes don't have the +/-15 V that
Unibus boxes have and lots of old devices need -- so I could certainly see
having a separate box just for the RKV backplane.

>I used to work as Engineering
>support for Canada's leading importer of DEC-compatible kit before I went off to
>run Emulex Canada and he went off to try to be president of Poland, but that's
>another story.

Sounds like a doozy!

John Wilson
D Bit