VAXstation 3520 (was: Re: MasPar, anyone?)

From: Roger Ivie <IVIE_at_cc.usu.edu>
Date: Fri Sep 13 00:20:07 2002

Jochen Kunz wrote:
> On 2002.09.11 08:18 Roger Ivie wrote:
> > They used the VAXstation 3520 because they got a real good deal on
> > them from DEC, who was anxious to sell the thing. I designed the
> > interface between the 3520 and the MasPar which, AFAIK, was the
> > only 3rd party interface done for the 3520's proprietary MBUS.
> Du you still have access to doc about the VAXstation 3520 and its MBUS?
> NetBSD on a VS 3520 or 3540 would be so nice as NetBSD VAX supports SMP
> for more than a year now...

I do have some docs. The stuff I have is mostly hardware oriented; it
talks about the bus protocol more than the registers and console firmware
implementation, which is what you would be interested in. However, I'm
in the process of moving, so I'm not sure what box it would be in. I also
don't know what the NetBSD group's attitude toward underground document
shipments is; I acquired the stuff under NDA and was probably supposed to
destroy it when the project was over.

If someone had a good way to anonymously donate sensitive documents to
the NetBSD project, I might have several they would be interested in.
Or perhaps not. It may be the case that I could put my hands on a copy
of the MSCP spec, for instance. Or maybe I just talk big and don't actually
have that sort of stuff lying around. I definitely may or may not have a
copy of the SOC CPU spec, which could (or could not) be interesting to the
4000/VLC crowd. I could even have interesting and unusual pieces of hardware,
such as a couple of rtVAX400s if such things exist, but they don't, so I
clearly must not have any. Definitely not 3 of them. Not that it would
matter; if they did exist, there would probably be a nasty bug in the ASIC
anyway. Or maybe not.

> tsch??,
> Jochen

Aufwiederschreiben,

Roger Ivie
ivie_at_cc.usu.edu
Received on Fri Sep 13 2002 - 00:20:07 BST