Classic busses (was Re: Whats a reasonable collection?)

From: Brian Chase <bdc_at_world.std.com>
Date: Thu Jun 28 17:16:36 2001

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:25:21PM -0700, Ethan Dicks wrote:

> > Turbochannel is the bus I've seen most often with DEC RISC workstations,
> > although I think they were not the only vendor to use it. The MIPS boxes
> > and the early Alpha boxes were Turbochannel. Mostly, it was used for
> > frame buffers, but I think there were one or two non-graphic Turbochannel
> > cards.
>
> Of course there are: I have an Ethernet adapter (10 Mbit) in my
> DECstation 5000/125 which is a TurboChannel card and AFAIK there also
> exist some SCSI cards for the TurboChannel.

This is a partial list of things I could find on the web.

  AV300-AA Audio/Video Capture Card
  KZTSA Fast-Wide-Diff SCSI
  CITCA CI Cluster Interface
  DEFTA FDDI Adapter (fiber)
  DEFZA FDDI Adapter (copper)
  DGLTA ATM Adapter
  DETRA Token-Ring Adapter
  PMAZB Dual SCSI Controller
  PMAZC Dual Fast SCSI Controller

There's also a lot of stuff listed in the NetBSD TURBOChannel device
header file "syssrc/sys/dev/tc/tcdevs.h".

In addtion to their MIPS and Alpha systems, later model DEC VAXstation
systems (4000 series) also used TURBOChannel as a bus.

-brian.
Received on Thu Jun 28 2001 - 17:16:36 BST