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From: gnu@HOPTOAD.UUCP (John Gilmore)
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Subject: Re: Is the Systech serial mux card a vme card?
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Date: Tue, 4-Mar-86 04:44:59 EST
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jmoore@MIPS.UUCP (Jim Moore) writes:
> Is the Systech serial mux card a vme card or does it sit on a
> Multibus-->vme adaptor?

It is a Multibus card which sites on a Multibus/VMEbus adapter.  The
adapter is a small simple board and a machined aluminum card carrier
which holds the card firmly and slides into the triple high VMEbus in
a Sun.  It introduces a minimum of delay, on the order of a hundred
nanoseconds, in the signals crossing it, so mostly you don't care
whether a card is using the adapter or not -- unless you can find a
32-bit data bus version on a VMEbus card (unlikely unless it's very
recent).

[PS, the bus is called the VMEbus; you don't go around calling them
Multi cards now do you?]