Subject: Re: VAX magtape TU81
To: saad mogren <s_mogren@yahoo.com>
From: Lord Isildur <mrfusion@umbar.vaxpower.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/15/2001 22:55:37
nope, AFAIK nothing except DEC stuff had Qbus'es. 
(well, and some OEM'ed LSI11's) 

isildur

On Tue, 15 May 2001, saad mogren wrote:

> der,
> many thanks for yur reply, what about SUN machine does
> it have Qbus interface,
> saad
> --- der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> wrote:
> > > is there a way to connect TU81 to linux pc, is
> > there a Qbus card
> > > which can be installed or compatible with intel
> > pc.
> > 
> > Sure, if the pc in question has a Qbus.
> > 
> > I've never heard of an Intel-based machine with a
> > Qbus.  Someone
> > somewhere may have made a PCI-to-Qbus or ISA-to-Qbus
> > bridge, and with
> > that and a Qbus backplane you could conceivably set
> > up the hardware.
> > I'd be astonished if the software to support it
> > exists, though.  (It'd
> > be a Really Cool Hack to add to NetBSD, though, and
> > a good illustration
> > of the power of our attachment framework.  If
> > /sys/dev/qbus has been
> > properly bus_{space,dma}ified, that is. :-)
> > 
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