On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 11:34:15AM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:

> > But that would cheap, easy to build, easy to upgrade.
>   ...and it would involve using cheap-crap PeeCee hardware, totally
> destroying the damn-near legendary reliability of PDP11/VAX hardware.

Why, are you going to use a QBus IDE card in a VAX in your corporate
CED? :)

However, PCI is not only on PeeCee. Today we have it on Sun, R6000 (does
IBM still make that?), Mac, Alpha... even whith PeeCee, I think it would
be stable enough for hobbyist use.

> Not to mention adding another whole chassis to the mix.

Yes, just like one of that external disk storare all we have in CEDs. ;)

>   CPU and software YOU already have.  No offense intended, but some of
> us don't allow PeeCees in our homes.  

See above!

> I wholeheartedly support the
> idea of building a "real" Qbus interface card.

Oh, I would buy one or two of that, indeed!

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	   Cthulhu

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