29 Mar
2011
29 Mar
'11
3:50 p.m.
On 3/29/11 4:58 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 3/29/11 1:50 PM, Jochen Kunz wrote:
Correct. The 53c9xy chips had a fixed-function, state-machine based
architecture. The SCRIPTS processor was, as I recall, introduced with
the 53c700 and improved in the 53c810 line. Nifty stuff, if you're into
that sort of thing.
KJ
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:50:01 -0400
> Dave McGuire<mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
>
> >> Can the 53C90B be coaxed into doing DSSI?
> The PCI DSSI adapters (KFPSA?), that I got with an AlphaServer once
> uppon a time long gone, contained NCR 53C825 SCSI processors. AFAIK
> those chips include a complete RISC microcontroler and can be tought
> to talk neary any "language".
Sweet machine. I know the later chips
are programmable, but the
53C90B is a very old design, and I didn't think the built-in processor
was introduced that early.
29 Mar
29 Mar
5:58 p.m.
On 3/29/11 6:50 PM, KJ Seefried wrote:
Correct. The 53c9xy chips had a fixed-function, state-machine based
architecture. The SCRIPTS processor was, as I recall, introduced with
the 53c700 and improved in the 53c810 line. Nifty stuff, if you're into
that sort of thing.
Which I am! =) Thanks for the clarification; I knew it was something
along those lines.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
> >> Can the 53C90B be coaxed into doing
DSSI?
> The PCI DSSI adapters (KFPSA?), that I got with an AlphaServer once
> uppon a time long gone, contained NCR 53C825 SCSI processors. AFAIK
> those chips include a complete RISC microcontroler and can be tought
> to talk neary any "language".
Sweet machine. I know the later chips
are programmable, but the
53C90B is a very old design, and I didn't think the built-in processor
was introduced that early.
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