On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Dave McGuire wrote:

> 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. :-(

I wonder if it might have to do with the fact that the 7000 machines can
have up to 3 gig of memory (was it 3 gig?), compared to older machines who
were limited at 512 meg (or whatever).
(I'm not sure if the 6000-6xx machines were in the large memory family or
not.)

	Johnny

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