13 Dec
2001
13 Dec
'01
2:01 p.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On December 13, Boatman on the River of Suck wrote:
Pricey beasts, those bridges. Looked into that a few years ago when
my company was thinking of replacing the 11/45's with the Osprey
board. Unibus bridges were about $2500 each.
-nick
That's why I was thinking of addressing
multiple busses. Not only that, I
want to maintain compatibility with existing devices.
I don't recall who at the moment...but there's some company
somewhere who makes a PCI-Qbus bridge, and maybe a Unibus one as
well. The idea is to use a pdp11 emulator on a crappy PeeCee and be
able to connect your DEC peripherals to it.
I would love to see NetBSD/alpha drivers for that board...I'd put an
RL02 (or maybe an RK07!) on one my Alphas! 8-)
-Dave