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From: emjej@uokvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: VME I/O hardware
Message-ID: <3400076@uokvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-Apr-86 17:13:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  4 17:13:00 1986
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Nf-From: uokvax.UUCP!emjej    Apr  4 16:13:00 1986


Hiya.  Some folks who may have wanted to sell us a uVAX claimed that VME-bus
device controllers had all sorts of non-uniform interfaces, so that you wound
up being stuck with buying the vendor's [expensive] hardware to get device
drivers, unless you wanted to roll your own.

Is this really the case?  I'd have thought that SASI/SCSI would at least be
canonical for disk controllers, though maybe that's sort of like X.34-1979
conformance. :-)  Any information would be helpful.

					James Jones