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SubjectRe: Microchanel Alphas?
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
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