16 Nov
2012
16 Nov
'12
2:21 p.m.
Michael Thompson [michael.99.thompson at gmail.com]:
I was part of the team that created the Futurebus+
specification. My name is in the front with the other authors.
Indeed it is. After digging up P896.1 I went and checked Digital Tech
Journal V5 N1,
which includes an article about the DECnis and that does indeed use FB+.
I've found one Cobra (DEC 4000) document that indicates it uses FB+ too.
(Just in case someone really needs to know when browsing the list
archives eons from now ...)
The Cobra System Overview mentions that, as FB+ was an open bus,
3rd-party options might
be made available, for example HPPI and a VMEbus interface. I don't know
whether anything
like that ever happened. I don't think the DEC 4000 lived long enough
for much of a market
to build up and I don't know of any other DEC systems (apart from
DECnis) which used FB+.
Antonio
arcarlini at iee.org