Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!info-vax From: info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Subject: RE: uVAX busses Message-ID: <7805@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Wed, 5-Jun-85 00:27:06 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.7805 Posted: Wed Jun 5 00:27:06 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Jun-85 07:58:57 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 16 From: Richard Garland In re uVAX busses: There have been rumors for about a year, and several DECUS sessions about a new bus called the BI (not CI, BI as in SBI without the S). Supposedly 32 bits data and address, fast, etc with provision for multiprocessors designed in. Not facts as of now, just rumors. I think there is a paper in the session notes of last fall's DECUS which gives a general outline (DEC advanced development group or some such). If I can dig it up I'll quote the reference. I seem to recall the speaker saying this would be the backplane for smallish machines (uVIXen?) and would be on an adapter on larger machines (8600's?). It will be the ultimate replacement for the Unibus (will the Unibus ever really die?). Rg -------