16 Oct
2001
16 Oct
'01
7:19 a.m.
--- Iggy Drougge <optimus(a)canit.se> wrote:
Ethan Dicks skrev:
Older Cisco routers (AGS+, etc.) also used Multibus. There were two
connectors, one at 0.154" pitch, the other at a smaller pitch (0.125"?)
The cards were approx 12" wide and 6" tall (might be a little larger).
I think the data path was limited to 16 bits, but I could be wrong on
that. It was common to see on Motorola processors before VME.
NCR had a line of multibus-based 68K-family UNIX
machines called "NCR
Towers"...
ISTR reading that very early SUNs used Multibus, too. What kind of bus
was that? What did it look like, and what other platforms used it?
It seems to have been quite popular at some time. It seems to have been quite popular at some time.
AFAIK, it was either free to use or cheap to license, and didn't
require proprietary connectors like DEC busses.
-ethan
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