5 Oct
1999
5 Oct
'99
6:33 a.m.
On Tue, 05 Oct 1999, Ram Meenakshisundaram wrote:
This might be a VME-based transputer board. I have an
Sun IPX, is there
anything I can use to connect this board to the Sun and test it out. I remember
that there was once a option for Sun's to add VME to Sparc2 and IPXs, something
called force. Does anyone know where I can get this or something similar.
Umm...Hmm. Force made a bunch of VME sparc machines...they had a sparc2
on a 6U VME card, and they're currently making a 6U card with what amounts to
a sparc5 on it. It has two sbus slots actually on the vme board, sorta like a
miniature 4/600. I just saw one the other day; we just got a new phone switch
at a company I'm peripherally associated with. It's a big central office
switch made by Summus, and the SS7 processor is one of these Force SS5
machines on a VME board. Neat stuff.
I don't think they ever made an Sbus-VME bridge, though, but I could be
wrong. Might wanna give them a jingle and see what they say.
-Dave McGuire