[Info-vax] Unix on A DEC Vax?

[MG]

On 19-jan-2013 16:20, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 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.

SGI did have hardware and software to increase 'DEC affinity' and
of which they were very proud (i.e. they boasted about it in their
marketing material), once upon a time.

But, I think you're right, I don't think SGI ever actually had DSSI
and I was most likely confusing myself with FDDI.


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

Interesting, who ever developed and used/took advantage of it, or
was it more of a community 'hack'?  If not the latter, it must've
predated S/PDIF TOSLINK/"lightpipe" by quite a bit then.

  - MG