Intriguing proposal

From: Paul Thompson <thompson_at_mail.athenet.net>
Date: Fri Sep 21 20:53:37 2001

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Absurdly Obtuse wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Carlini, Antonio wrote:
>
> > > Absurdly Obtuse wrote:
> > >
> > >Is it possible to put a Laserbus PCI Hose from an AlphaServer 8400
> > in my
> > >VAX 7000? The concept boggles the mind. Also, does anyone know
> > where I
>
> The reason why I was asking is that I've seen a lot of sellers selling
> boards that would work in both 7000 and 8400 boxen.
>
> If I could get my VAX 7000 system running
> with PCI cards, then I could do some *serious* expansion to my VAXcluster.
> All has to do with the quantity of PCI cards currently being made.

There is zero support in OpenVMS VAX for PCI. There was some discussion
of this in comp.os.vms a while back that might be worth reading.

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