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From: george@mnetor.UUCP (George Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: What's Nu with VME for Mac?
Message-ID: <3818@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Nov-86 16:25:59 EST
Article-I.D.: mnetor.3818
Posted: Fri Nov 14 16:25:59 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 14-Nov-86 17:42:44 EST
References: <401@intsc.UUCP>
Reply-To: george@mnetor.UUCP (George Hart)
Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Flame on...

In article <401@intsc.UUCP> tomk@intsc.UUCP (Tom Kohrs) writes:
>What ever Motorola may have told the public, VME is not a generalized bus.
>All of the control signals and timings are direct extensions of 68000 
>processor.   You might be able to consider VME as a non-Mot product much
>like the 68K is no longer a Motorola product.  If you think the VME 
>architecture is generalized talk to someone that has tried to put a non-68K
>engine on the bus, it is not trivial.

In the spirit in which you requested that Motorola propaganda be kept
out of comp.sys.intel, may I also request that you (and your buddies)
keep the equivalent Intel bullshit out this newsgroup?

One might also ask why Sun, not only dropped Multibus but why they never
used Intel processors.

Flame off.
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Regards,

George Hart, Computer X Canada Ltd.
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