Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: AT-Bus workstations? (Re: Tektronix shutdown & move away from 88k's??) Message-ID: <.NT6VU5@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 1 Nov 90 15:42:39 GMT References: <2176@lupine.NCD.COM> <42310@mips.mips.COM> <1990Oct30.164155.10708@mozart.amd.com> <1990Oct31.182519.2795@zoo.toronto.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 9 Anyone remember the early Apollos with Apple-II busses for the same reason? In article <1990Oct31.182519.2795@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: > One should note, however, that the usefulness of this is greatly exaggerated. > You say you want to use all those nifty AT peripherals? Well, just how do > you plan to write device drivers for them? [no hardware docs, no spec] For the real weird way-out peripherals in industral catalogs, I'd suggest sticking an STD-bus in there. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com