Ethan Dicks said:
If they can take it, you'd need a DWBUA on a VAXBI
bus (there is no
Unibus adapter for XMI). ISTR when the 6000 was current that DEC
imposed a limit on how fast a machine could take a DWBUA, not to
screw the customer, but because some of the (then) newer machines
had so many layers between the Unibus peripherals and memory that
timings could not be maintained.
I am aware of an application that used a Unibus on a VAX 6520. The
system would occasionally spontaneously crash; it looked to me like
the UNIBUS adapter was getting wedged. Rumor has it they fixed it
with a microcode upgrade to the DWBUA, but I doubt that microcode
was ever made generally available.
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Roger Ivie
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