12 Dec
2001
12 Dec
'01
1:22 p.m.
On December 12, Boatman on the River of Suck wrote:
Cool. Cards that you can actually FIT SOME COMPONENTS ON. What a
concept.
That's the only thing I don't like about sbus. You can fill up an
sbus card with three good-sized chips. Ridiculous.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
Are you
wanting this to go in big, hex-width cards like old UNIBUS cards,
or will you be defining a new form factor, connector (compact UNIBUS?),
backplane, and card mounting system for your new UNIBUS (UNewBUS?)?
Old style. 
12 Dec
12 Dec
1:43 p.m.
Dave McGuire said:
That's the only thing I don't like about sbus. You can fill up an
sbus card with three good-sized chips. Ridiculous.
that, and the connectors are evil...
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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13 Dec
13 Dec
6:42 a.m.
That's the only thing I don't like about
sbus. You can fill up an
sbus card with three good-sized chips. Ridiculous.
They make doubles.
Dave McGuire wrote:
>
> On December 12, Boatman on the River of Suck wrote:
> > > Are you wanting this to go in big, hex-width cards like old UNIBUS cards,
> > > or will you be defining a new form factor, connector (compact UNIBUS?),
> > > backplane, and card mounting system for your new UNIBUS (UNewBUS?)?
> >
> > Old style.
>
> Cool. Cards that you can actually FIT SOME COMPONENTS ON. What a
> concept.
>
That's the only thing I don't like about
sbus. You can fill up an
sbus card with three good-sized chips. Ridiculous.
>
> -Dave
>
> --
> Dave McGuire
> St. Petersburg, FL
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