On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 07:20 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>> Does anyone have an extra CI-kontroller for these beasts by the way?
>>
>>    Aren't there a lot of those around?  Lots of 6000-series machines
>> have CI; is there a better way to get CI in a 7000 than XMI?
>
> Not the same CI if I remember right. I'm not sure why DEC produced 
> another
> CI controller for these machines, but they did. I'll have to assume 
> they
> had a good reason. The same controller is used in a DEC 7000, but you 
> have
> to change the microcode.

   Really??  That is *weird*.  I can understand there being differences 
between VAX and Alpha I/O controllers for the same bus, but between 
different VAX implementations??  This doesn't sound very DECish to me.  
Sad. :-(

     -Dave

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