Subject: RE: NuVAX revisited
To: 'Scott Horton' <bighorton@home.com>
From: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/28/2001 09:58:11
! From: Scott Horton [mailto:bighorton@home.com]
!
! Okay - so here's the way I would do it, given resources,
! time, talent and so forth:
!
! <talking through my hat>
.....(all his good ideas).....
! Once this is working, build a new chip for each of the other
! popular VAX busses (VAXBI?), and build a similar
! single-board replacement for those architectures. Also look
! at board replacements for the littler machines, such as
! VaxStation2000, 3xxx, 4xxx, etc.
Now I don't really know about the programming part, but from a
manufacturing point, how about making this an expansion board/daughtercard
combo instead? Put all of your common VAXen goodies on the daughtercard,
which would then plug into/onto the bus-specific expansion card. Either sit
right above it, or by way of a ribbon cable...
Since there would be only one process for making the daughtercard,
which is the heart of this little gem, quality control (and
replacement/repair too) would definitely be easier.
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