Atari Unix

Plamen Mihaylov plamenspam at afterpeople.com
Sat Oct 17 12:29:39 CDT 2015


The RIebl ethernet card is working with ASV

On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Dave Wade <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Mark
> > Linimon
> > Sent: 17 October 2015 17:30
> > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> > <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> > Subject: Re: Atari Unix
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 03:26:53PM +0100, Dave G4UGM wrote:
> > > The "real SCSI" is still somewhat broken and very temperamental.
> >
> > As someone who used to make a living working on VMEbus equipment ...
> >
> > ... if a machine has a VMEbus slot, that description usually applies.
> > In particular, never assume that multiple bus masters can exist on the
> same
> > backplane.
> >
> > I fought that battle with a Solbourne.  Conclusion: it was fine to add in
> one of
> > our peripheral boards but that was it.  They had never even implemented
> > the hard parts of the spec.
> >
> > mcl
>
>
> I think the only use I ever saw for the slot in the Atari TT was for Video
> cards. My TT had one, but it needed extra software to drive it...
>
> Dave
>
>


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