Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!mnetor!spectrix!clewis From: clewis@spectrix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.68k Subject: Re: What's Nu for VME..... Message-ID: <183@spectrix.UUCP> Date: Thu, 30-Oct-86 14:10:51 EST Article-I.D.: spectrix.183 Posted: Thu Oct 30 14:10:51 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 30-Oct-86 22:59:21 EST References: <984@hounx.UUCP> <2880@rsch.WISC.EDU> Reply-To: clewis@spectrix.UUCP (Chris Lewis) Organization: Spectrix Microsystems Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada Lines: 18 In article <2880@rsch.WISC.EDU> mcvoy@rsch.WISC.EDU (Lawrence W. McVoy) writes: >In article <984@hounx.UUCP> hudson@hounx.UUCP (C.HUDSON) writes: >>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." > >I love when somebody makes a blanket statement like this :-) So do I - a single Spectrix XL machine has the following "buses": Multibus, Intel iLBX (actually, Multibus P2 connector), X-Bus (extension of 68020 pins), MX-bus (ribbon-cable), Intel iSBX bus and the FIFO. Not a VMEbus in the lot! :-) -- Chris Lewis Spectrix Microsystems Inc, UUCP: {utzoo|utcs|yetti|genat|seismo}!mnetor!spectrix!clewis Phone: (416)-474-1955