Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 22 Nov 1996 22:25:42 -0800 (PST) | From | "James W. Laferriere" <> | Subject | Re: FYI: I2O Architecture (fwd) |
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On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, James W. Laferriere wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Services like RAID are not visible to the host and thus takes the load > > > of providing such services from the host CPU. > > > > > > You can even attach a serial terminal to it..... > > > > Have you written a Linux tty interface for it, or can you only chat to > > the card itself, like you used to be able to plug a vt52 into any board > > on a VAX ? > > Heck, you could even do that with the RA series of DEC > disk drives. Hmmm someone outside of DEC, Doing Disk > interface designing....
Darn, that brings up another pet project of mine might even breathe a little life into the OLD MicroVaxII & better.
Porting Linux to the VAX architecture, NetBSD's already got Sources.
Anybody else up for a bit O' Vax Bashing.... ;-)
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