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From: linimon@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Mark Linimon)
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: Re: Source for VME/Multibus boards
Summary: pointers to bus buyers' guides
Keywords: real-time bus
Message-ID: <9341@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 12 Sep 89 20:41:22 GMT
References: <3921@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Reply-To: linimon@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Mark Linimon)
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In article <3921@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> aras@ecerl3.UUCP () writes:
>IS there a good source for finding specs, prices on [VMEbus/Multibus] boards,
>cages etc. And any good sources on real-time kernels for these? Any help will
>be greatly appreciated.

Control Engineering magazine publishes a set of Buyers' Guides, one each
for Multibus, STD Bus, VMEbus, Multibus II, IBM PC bus, and Q-Bus.

Control Engineering Microcomputer Interface Group
Box 5080
Des Plaines, IL 60017-5080
1-800-992-4447 except Illinois, 1-800-348-8324

Note: all the bus names are trademarks of the varying manufacturer's groups.

The VMEbus manufacturer's group is
VITA
Suite E
10229 N. Scottsdale Road
Scottsdale, AZ 85253
602-951-8866

I think they moved a few weeks ago into a suite down the block; but this
should be sufficient.

Their "VMEbus Compatible Products Directory" is reasonably definitive.
They also have copies of the bus spec; and a software directory.

Disclaimer: we advertise in both but offer no claims otherwise.
Further disclaimer: I don't speak for Mizar, anyway.

Mark Linimon
Software Engineer
Mizar, Inc.
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