[Info-vax] Unix on A DEC Vax?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-01-19 13:11:41 +0000, MG said:

> On 18-jan-2013 14:48, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> Or just put a SCSI QBus module in and dump the DSSI entirely.
>> (Don't get me wrong, I ran DSSI on my 4000's and thought they
>> were great. But, unfortunately, the rest of the world just chose
>> to ignore DSSI which I once heard described as "SCSI done right".)
> 
> Maybe I'm mistaken (and thinking of FDDI), but I think besides DEC,
> SGI also used it as well.


AFAIK, no.

DSSI was DEC-proprietary gear, and AFAIK was available only on DEC 
boxes; on various VAX, Alpha, and DECsystem MIPS boxes.

There was a DSSI PCI controller KFPCA and a Q-bus KFQSA controller, so 
it's conceivable (though unlikely) that somebody wrote a device driver 
for something other than a DEC OS for it.

FDDI is a completely different fiber optic network connection, and was 
available from various vendors.

There is a DSSI (disposable soft synth interface) audio API around, 
though that's completely unrelated to the DEC DSSI gear.

A cursory search for SGI and DSSI returns no relevent hits.  Do you 
have any citations or system configurations?


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