[Info-vax] Hopelessly Pathetic Hardware Parts

Bob Koehler koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org
Mon Aug 27 17:02:18 EDT 2012


In article <3bb2bf32-a1fb-47cb-834f-74992ff861c1 at s2g2000vbj.googlegroups.com>, Hans Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> writes:
> 
> JF, that's what I had in mind while posting the question LOL.
> It may even been possible, provided the VAX 9000 had some form of
> support for the BI bus.

   Not necessary.  In keepin up with the tradition of using obsolete
   computers as consoles, there were supposed to be two MicrVAX II
   inside a 9000.

   And we know there a Qbus graphics adapters.

   But did they use a byte interrupt, programmed I/O scheme to communicate
   with the MV II?




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