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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: Re: What's Nu with VME for Mac?
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Date: Mon, 17-Nov-86 17:52:51 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 17 17:52:51 1986
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In article <1283@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
> subsequently revised for 8086's.)  Byte order was a constant hassle (the
> Tapemaster Multibus tape controller STILL requires the Sun driver to
> byte-swap ALL THE DATA going to or from the drive, precluding
> streaming).

Why doesn't Sun use the Tapemaster-A, which will do the byte swapping
by itself?
-- 
emordnilapanalpanama

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