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From: my@falcon.nsc.com (Michael Yip)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: EISA card development for the Snake? (was Snakebytes)
Keywords: EISA, HP, SCSI, Snake, MIPS
Message-ID: <1991Apr13.203913.10546@berlioz.nsc.com>
Date: 13 Apr 91 20:39:13 GMT
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Reply-To: my@falcon.nsc.com (Michael Yip)
Organization: National Semiconductor Corporation
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I understand that the EISA is a standard bus for high end PCs and
it is being used for the HP Snake series of workstations.  Does it
mean that the software spec for interfacing to the HP-UX operating
system is also in the public?  Can anyone/everyone get the spec
and develope for the HP series of workstations?  or someone needs
HP's approval?

Hardware is probably not an issue but how about the driver software...

-- Mike Yip
   my@berlioz.nsc.com

PS: And OPEN-ARCHITECTURE using the EISA bus will do the user
    not good if the software is not OPEN to everyone ...