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From: wilkes@mips.COM (John Wilkes)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: IBM-PC Card to Sun VME bus adapter
Message-ID: <1532@electron.mips.COM>
Date: 9 Feb 88 20:40:36 GMT
References: <1564@macadam.munsell.UUCP> <17830@topaz.rutgers.edu> <1166@orcisi.UUCP>
Reply-To: wilkes@electron.UUCP (John Wilkes)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
Lines: 34

In article <1166@orcisi.UUCP> michael@orcisi.UUCP (Michael Herman) writes:
>> Sun makes a thing that they call the "Integrated Personal Computer."
>
>I may be wrong but I thought the original poster was looking for a PC
><-> VME bus adapter card that allows one to use PC expansion cards in
>a Sun workstation. (?)

Check out the "VMEbus Compatible Products Directory" put out by VITA
(VMEbus International Trade Association).  There are at least three
different products that allow an IBM-PC to be a VMEbus master.  This would
allow VMEbus cards to be used on the PC.  There are also a few single board
computers based on the '86 family that run MS-DOS.

A glance did not reveal anything that would allow PC boards to be used in a
VME sustem, but something like that may be in there.  Alternatively, one of
the PC-as-VMEbus-master boards might be adaptable.  Doesn't somebody make a
PCbus thing that has no processor on it?  Maybe that could be used?

call VITA at (602) 951-8866

I have no association with VITA, other than having purchased their catalog.

>Michael Herman
>Optical Recording Corporation
>141 John Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada  M5V 2E4
>
>UUCP:	{mnetor,yetti,utgpu}!geac!orcisi!michael
>ALSO:	michael@orcisi.uucp


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