VAX9000 unearthed

Antonio Carlini a.carlini at ntlworld.com
Fri Feb 18 14:46:52 CST 2022


On 18/02/2022 20:35, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
>
> There also was an effort at one point to adopt FutureBus in DEC systems.  We did a pile of design in the network architecture group to figure out how to handle interrupts and bus cycles efficiently; I don't remember if anything actually shipped with that stuff.
>
> 	paul

The DEC 4000 systems (COBRA and the follow-on upgrade, FANG) use FB as 
an I/O bus. DECnis also used FB as its backplane. They couldn't share 
cards though.


Antonio


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