7 Aug
2001
7 Aug
'01
12:18 p.m.
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, r. 'bear' stricklin wrote:
Don't forget about the variety of coprocessed PCI cards out there. Like
the Mylex DAC960 series, which uses two identical custom Mylex chipsets
and an i960CF for two-channel coprocessed RAID, and the IBM ServeRAID.
The ServeRAID II has three Adaptec AIC-7880 UW-SCSI chipsets and a PowerPC
403e @ 66? MHz for three-channel coprocessed RAID. Then there are all the
SGI VME64 graphics cards, etc, many of which have interesting processors
on them.
Peace... Sridhar
I'd really like one of those Microway i860
multi-processor EISA cards I
used to see advertised all the time in the PC rags.
I have a couple. I don't know if it is the same card you are talking
about, but I have a couple of different kinds of cards which are
multiprocessor i860 on an EISA.
Probably the two most interesting ISA cards I own are
an Iterated Systems
fractal compression accelerator, and a 3-board, 2-slot graphics card by
Matrox which I haven't identified yet.
Interesting to note that even beyond these two cards, that my most
interesting ISA or EISA boards are the least useful and the biggest
pains-in-the-bottom.
I've never had problems with EISA cards, but I've always been able to find
the config disks.
I actually
collect ISA cards that have interesting processors on them
(i.e. 80186, 68000, 68020, 386 486, etc.)
The old WD7000 cards used Z80s. The NE3200 has an 80186 on, and the old
Mylex DCE376 caching SCSI card has an 80376sx (386sx for embedded
systems), but they're both EISA. DPT SCSI cards also have historically
used 680x0 CPUs---my PCI 2144UW has a 40 MHz 68040. I don't know if cards
like this fall within your mandate.