Subject: Re: info on sun3-80
To: J.T. Conklin <jconklin@netcom.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-sun3
Date: 09/01/1995 12:36:49
On Fri, 1 Sep 1995 11:43:00 -0700 (PDT) 
 jconklin@netcom.com (J.T. Conklin) wrote:

 > We have copies of the Sun3x architecture manual.  Unfortunately, the
 > version we have is woefully incomplete.  For exxample, the section on
 > the SCSI subsystem simply states that the SCSI system has yet to be
 > specified.  So far I've been using the similarities between the 3/80
 > and the Sparcstation to fill in the gaps.

I did a little poking around on some Sun 3x systems ... including asking 
several people for `dmesg' output from SunOS ... I _believe_ that the 
3/80's `sm' SCSI interface is like the SPARCstations' `esp', but perhaps 
behind different DMA glue ...

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