Subject: Re: NetBSD/vax QBUS IDE?!
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 11/22/2002 19:29:26
On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 07:10 PM, Lord Isildur wrote:
> I remember now that we had even mentioned this back then.. i had 
> totally
> forgotten about it in the meantime!
> complicated hardware? I dont think an SBC is too complicated. One that 
> a
> qbus interface could be glued onto, maybe a bit more complicated, but a
> quick and dirty implementation not so much.. now, how do we go about
> interfacing to the qbus?

   I think using an SBC for something like this is horribly dirty.

   Before you flame me, I should point out that doing it with a small 
processor with custom logic wouldn't be that more involved, and would 
be a LOT less kludgy.

       -Dave

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Dave McGuire                 "You don't have Vaseline in Canada?"
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