On Wed, 01 Dec 1999, Roger Ivie wrote:
My original design concept for the Firefox QBus Adapter
Module involved
having a dual-ported memory between the MBus and the QBus. The device
drivers would copy data to and from this memory before or after performing
DMA, as appropriate. This would have worked nicely and provided acceptable
performance. However, I made the mistake of describing the arrangement
to VMS people as "just like the MicroVAX I"; since the MicroVAX I doesn't
have a scatter/gather map, the device driver has to do this to cover that
Yuck.
lack. I was rudely informed that VMS no longer
supported the MicroVAX I,
and good riddance.
Oh my. I am sadly misinformed, then. I apologize. I hadn't heard about the
removal of -I support.
So, the FQAM wound up being a really ugly and slow QBus
adapter that worked
much more like the traditional QBus adapter.
Bummer...
-Dave McGuire