[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-03-26 15.28, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article<jkpldl$m3p$2 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist<bqt at softjar.se>  writes:
>> On 2012-03-26 03.19, Howard S Shubs wrote:
>>> In article<00ABED1D.39A4359F at SendSpamHere.ORG>,
>>>    VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>>
>>>> In article<snn049-87o.ln1 at news.sture.ch>, Paul Sture<paul at sture.ch>   writes:
>>>>> On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 06:24:47 +0000, JohnF wrote:
>>>>>> Literally hit by a bus??? If ever there was a metaphor...
>>>>>
>>>>> Hit by a Q-bus, I assume. :-)
>>>>
>>>> or a UNIbus... or a BI bus... or an XMI bus... or a PCI bus...  :)
>>>
>>> Don't forget the MASSBUS.  It strikes me (ha!) as being more MASSive.
>>
>> The cables certainly are... :-)
>
> ROFL.  Those were pipes, not cables!

You could almost think so, except they were flexible, for some 
definition of "flexible". :-)

It was/is hell to pull them into a cabinet and maneuver them in place 
for the connector. A nice feature was that the connector could be set in 
three different angles to the cable. That helped a lot.

	Johnny