Jules Richardson wrote:
I picked up a very nice RT system the other day from a list member
which includes the 5085 graphics processor and 5081 colour display.
We've just been setting it up today (or trying to), and an obvious
question arises...
The 5085 has some sort of comms input ability on a BNC connector (and
output on another BNC, but that's terminated). The RT has a little
"breakout box" which hooks up to the 5085 link card on one side and
has four BNC outputs on the other.
My *assumption* is that one of these outputs (and the breakout box
came with a coax cable already hooked up to BNC #1) links to the BNC
input on the back of the 5085, forming the comms channel between the
8085 and the RT.
However, it would be nice if someone can verify this! The RT
documentation doesn't cover the 5085 link option (so far as I've found
yet, anyway). The 5085 documentation doesn't cover it either (as it
only details how to hook the 5085 up to the peripherals and then boot
the hardware).
Obviously I'm a little reluctant to go randomly plugging cables in,
particularly as the breakout box has four BNCs on board - although it
could well be that the RT 5085 link board was capable of driving up to
four 5085 processors independently.
Google seems to know almost nothing about the 5085 option :-(
cheers
Jules
this takes me back (way back)....
I used 5085's on 43xx series systems.
The 5085 connected to a channel adapter
IRRc it was a 5088
The 5088 had 4 bnc connections and each connection could
support more than 1 5085
5085's could be daisy-chained by connecting the out from
one to the in of the next and terminating the last out.
channel-->5088-->5085-->5085-->terminator
I know nothing about a RT.. it may have the 5088 function built in.
If that is the case then (I would assume)
rt link board-->breakout box-->5085-->terminator
it would support more than 1 string of 5085s
joe lang