11 Feb
2011
11 Feb
'11
9:28 a.m.
Roger Ivie [rivie at ridgenet.net] wrote:
If I remember correctly there was $250,000 license fee for the "BI
Corner" if you wanted to design your own BI board.
That doessn't sound open to me.
--
Michael Thompson
During development of VAXBI, we were told (by the
folks
working on it) that it was A) not going to be VAX-specific
(DEC was moving MIPSward at the time) and B) would be open.
We were a bit startled when it was announced as "VAXBI".
It was never open (in the way that UNIBUS was) but it wasn't VAX-only
as the DECsystem 5800 (iirc) used it too.
Antonio