On Oct 26, 17:38, Chris Kennedy wrote:
> Subject: Re: gauging interest in VAX 6000-530
> Mike Cheponis wrote:
> > Relevance to old iron? Because old iron had lots of busses, new ones
don't.
> >
> > Why is that?
>
> Because it isn't the case.
> Other examples include the
> Cray/whatever 6400 SMP, Pyramid Nile, Sequent S5000 and I suspect
> the SGI Challenge and HP T500, although I'd have to check.
Correct, the Challenge (and indeed even the Indigos and Indys) have a
separate GIO bus for various purposes. And SGI Origin machines have a
crossbar switch arrangement instead of a single bus, IIRC.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Tue Oct 26 1999 - 20:55:45 BST