Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:17:33 -0700 (PDT) | From | Joel Jaeggli <> | Subject | Re: Microchanel Alphas? |
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On 27 Aug 1998 ketil@ii.uib.no wrote:
> Matthew Kirkwood <weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk> writes: > > > We have a couple of MCA Alphas > > Are you sure you don't mean Turbochannel? To my knowledge, nobody > outside IBM ever used MCA,
That's not entirely true, wyse and ncr at the very least, and probably others used microchannel for a time. Liscensing fees were steep. but they did it.
> and in particular, not Digital in their > workstations. I could be wrong, of course. TC, OTOH, were used in the > 3000 series, among others. > > Last time I looked, Linux didn't support TC, and unless you're willing > to do the coding yourself, it probably never will. One of the *BSDs > supported the bus, but at the cost of something else, graphics, I > think. You might want to check it out. > > ~kzm > -- > If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html >
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