Strange idea in VAX

From: Sridhar the POWERful <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Wed Apr 3 14:37:05 2002

On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Carlini, Antonio wrote:

> >One thing that might be interested is to see if I can find a PCI hose for
> >it, find source code for the PCI hose driver for a free OS (I'm pretty
> >sure that there is one out there somewhere), and try to write a VMS driver
> >for the PCI hose on OpenVMS/VAX?
>
> Can you get a PCI hose for it? I forget.
> If you can then you could also get one of
> those 3rd party PCI<->Q-bus boards and
> create a loop :-)

Now *that's* twisted. I like it. 8-)

> >Then I could try to get a PCI
> >framebuffer working, but then how would I go about attaching a keyboard
> >and mouse?
>
> PCI->USB?

But does OpenVMS/vax support USB?

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Wed Apr 03 2002 - 14:37:05 BST