2 Jul
1999
2 Jul
'99
2:08 p.m.
3) It
has some pretty easy to use busses defined for it (Q-Bus, Unibus)
Does anyone know what DEC's restrictions are on these buses now? At one
time they were patented by DEC, and you could only (legally) homebrew a
certain number of cards per machine.
Alternatively one could go with something like SPARC (which Sun alleges is
open but I have my doubts)
I don't think the processor is the problem, is it? You can get a pentium
data sheet with enough info to write low-level software for the machine.
-tony