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From: anarch@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (The Anarch)
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Subject: Re: Once again, questions concerning the ensoniq chip...
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Date: 3 May 91 04:22:14 GMT
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In article <1991May2.201628.9534@nevada.edu> alfter@nevada.edu (SCOTT ALFTER) writes:
>In article <5146.28201476@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) writes:
>>The Mega STe and the TT both have one slot, which is a VME slot.
>
>Whatever that is...it isn't NuBus and it isn't EISA (or even the older
>ISA).  Granted, the Apple II also uses a proprietary bus design, but
>you can afford a proprietary design when you have over 6 million
>computers installed.
>[...]
>Scott Alfter-----------------------------_/_----------------------------

     Hee hee...there are probably more cards available for VME than for
NuBus and EISA combined.  Well, that's an exaggeration--I have no idea
of the actual numbers--but there are definitely a *lot* of VME cards out
there; it's anything but a proprietary design.  VME (Versa something
Eurocard) has been around as a common 680x0 bus for over ten years.
It's an adaptation of Motorola's VersaBus, designed to accept Eurocard
format boards.  It's pretty much a standard in industrial environments,
and there is a great deal of very high-powered hardware available for it.
A place that I worked at for a while had a computer that was basically
a VME card cage.  It had four cards installed, each with 2 68020s and 4M
memory.  I wonder what one of those could make out of an ST?

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