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From: campbell@sauron.UUCP (Mark Campbell)
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k
Subject: Re: MC680x0 with the VME Bus
Message-ID: <747@sauron.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Oct-86 15:18:10 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 29 15:18:10 1986
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Organization: NCR Corp., Advanced System Development, Columbia, SC
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In article <984@hounx.UUCP> hudson@hounx.UUCP (C.HUDSON) writes:
>>I know the Sun-3 is VME; aren't most of the other 680xx boxes
>>also VME?  To my knowledge, only LMI (Symbolics?) and TI use Nu.
>
>The VME bus standard was designed by Signetics, Motorola, and Mostek.
>It follows that Motorola designs its 680** series to work well with
>the VME and would encourage the use of the VME. It seems very unlikely
>that a 680** box manufacturer would use anything but a VME bus. I'll
>stick my neck out and state "All 680** box-makers use the VME bus."
>(Anybody out there have a counterexample?)

The NCR Tower family (Tower 1632, Tower XP, MiniTower, MiniTower 32,
Tower 32) all use Motorola processors with Multibus I.
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Mark Campbell    Phone: (803)-791-6697     E-Mail: !ncsu!ncrcae!sauron!campbell