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From: shiffman%basselope@Sun.COM (Hank Shiffman)
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Subject: Re: Symbolics co-processor board for the Sparcstation-1 ?
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Date: 6 Sep 89 16:22:51 GMT
References: <1989Sep6.000759.15274@cs.rochester.edu>
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In article <1989Sep6.000759.15274@cs.rochester.edu> miller@CS.ROCHESTER.EDU (Brad Miller) writes:
>I suggest you look more carefully at the engineering of the UXL-400 and the
>Sparcstation-1.
>
>2) The Sparcstation-1 has NO bus whatsoever. Where would you plug an
>embedded Ivory in? The serial port? :-)
>

No bus?  This is going to come as a *big* surprise to an awful lot of
people.  I wonder where they've been connecting their color
framebuffers...

The SPARCstation 1 has a perfectly good bus.  It's called the S-bus.
There are three connectors inside the box for S-bus cards.  These
cards need to be roughly 3" by 5", so fitting a Lispm onto one would
be a pretty impressive feat of engineering.

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