30 Aug
2018
30 Aug
'18
1:45 a.m.
Does anybody know anything about these companies or their products?
If you have any interest in them, please contact me off list.
Thanks, Paul
30 Aug
30 Aug
10:26 a.m.
EXCELAN made VME, Multibus, QBus and Unibus Intelligent Ethernet cards
that put the IP stack on board running from an 80186. Obviously, didn't
keep up with changing standards. It also had the problem the IP address
was tied to the Ethernet address.
SGI used them in the 68K IRIS machines. There was a way to get to the
raw interface, which was the way they used them, or was it Integrated
Solutions...
There's stuff up on bitsavers about them.
On 8/30/18 1:45 AM, Paul Anderson via cctalk wrote:
Does anybody know anything about these companies or
their products?
If you have any interest in them, please contact me off list.
Thanks, Paul
10:54 a.m.
On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 10:26 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
EXCELAN made VME, Multibus, QBus and Unibus
Intelligent Ethernet cards
that put the IP stack on board running from an 80186. Obviously, didn't
keep up with changing standards. It also had the problem the IP address
was tied to the Ethernet address.
I think this depended on the driver being used -- the EXOS has half a meg
or so of memory that can be used to run code on-board (potentially
offloading protocol overhead), but not everything made use of it. I have
one in my VAX 11/730 and it works fine under 4.3BSD with no weird
restrictions, but it doesn't make use of the onboard RAM -- it just
controls the board directly.
They seem to be pretty nice boards, but I've only played with the Unibus
version.
- Josh
SGI used them in the 68K IRIS machines. There was a way to get to the
raw interface, which was the way they used them, or was it Integrated
Solutions...
There's stuff up on bitsavers about them.
On 8/30/18 1:45 AM, Paul Anderson via cctalk wrote:
Does anybody know anything about these companies
or their products?
If you have any interest in them, please contact me off list.
Thanks, Paul
2:59 p.m.
New subject: Novapalooza in 2 months...
The celebration of 50 exciting years of Data General Nova history is
quickly approaching - on October 22-24, 2018, in Denver, Colorado.
Details and registration may be found at:
www.Nova-At-50.org or www.NovaPalooza.org
Really, the Nova is 50? Yup - so join us in celebrating the personal and
technical impact of this youngster..
Bruce Ray
Wild Hare Computer Systems, Inc.
Boulder, Colorado USA
bkr at WildHareComputers.com
...preserving the Data General legacy: www.NovasAreForever.org
3:29 p.m.
New subject: Novapalooza in 2 months...
On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 6:00 PM Bruce Ray via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
The celebration of 50 exciting years of Data General
Nova history is
quickly approaching - on October 22-24, 2018, in Denver, Colorado.
Details and registration may be found at:
www.Nova-At-50.org or www.NovaPalooza.org
Really, the Nova is 50? Yup - so join us in celebrating the personal and
technical impact of this youngster..
Bruce Ray
Wild Hare Computer Systems, Inc.
Boulder, Colorado USA
bkr at WildHareComputers.com
...preserving the Data General legacy: www.NovasAreForever.org
I did not know about this group, I hope you have a good event. I don't own
any Nova stuff myself, just a lot of docs and manuals, simH.
Bill
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