aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP (12/03/87)
I'd like to play with my 3B1's hardware a bit, and have several questions:
(1) What are the best manuals to get? I was recommended the Technical
Reference, but but have not yett obtained it in two months' waiting.
(2) Has anybody interfaced SCSI to the UNIX PC?
(3) Has anybody interfaced a larger monitor?
(4) Does anyone know how hard it would be to break past the 4M limit
on a process' virtual address space? Ie. use more address lines
at the MMU?
That's enough for now.
Andy "Krazy" Glew. Gould CSD-Urbana. 1101 E. University, Urbana, IL 61801
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account for any possible bias I may have towards our products.gberg@hpcupt1.UUCP (12/04/87)
Is it possible to add one or more external hard discs to the 3b1/7300 ? Rather than pay $ 1,000+ for an AT&T memory expansion board, can blank boards be bought (and stuffed with cheap DRAMs) ? Has anyone replaced the 256K memory chips with 1Mbit chips on the motherboard ? Would it do any good to use memory faster than 150ns ?
rjd@occrsh.ATT.COM (12/21/87)
>The SCSI interface was released is for the 3B2 family of computers. It >will allow the new 3B2/500/600 and larger animals to interface all >kinds of hardware periphrials. Like 120MB tape drives, large hard >drives, removables, etc... > -Lenny Not completely correct. On March 27, 1987, AT&T announced the production of the SCSI (Small Computer Systems Interface) host adapter card for the 3B2 *family* of computers. This card will allow *ANY* 3B2 computer (i.e. 3B2 models 300, 310, 400, 500, 600) access to SCSI-based peripherals. The only limitation is the software load of the 3B2. The earliest release that supports it is either 2.0.5 or 3.0, and all subsequent releases. I think the original poster is more concerned with the 3B1, which is no relation to the 3B2. Randy