mac3n@babbage.acc.virginia.edu (Alex Colvin) (10/04/88)
Is there a device available to link a PC bus to a VME bus? I have a PC that I'd like to make a peripheral on the VME bus. If I can't share memory among the machines, is there a fast, simple, short-haul link? I'd rather not use a 2.5 meter ethernet.
dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) (10/05/88)
In article <363@babbage.acc.virginia.edu> mac3n@babbage.acc.virginia.edu (Alex Colvin) writes: >Is there a device available to link a PC bus to a VME bus? >I have a PC that I'd like to make a peripheral on the VME bus. > There are several manufacturers of PCbus to VME bus adapters, generally designed to allow a PC/AT computer to driver VME bus peripherals. I believe Bit 3 is one such company. There are several others. Image Technology uses such an adapter to have a PC/AT use their VME-based image processing box. Let me know if you're interested further and need phone numbers, etc. Cheers, Dan Ts'o 212-570-7671 Dept. Neurobiology dan@rna.rockefeller.edu Rockefeller Univ. ...cmcl2!rna!dan 1230 York Ave. rna!dan@nyu.arpa NY, NY 10021 tso@rockefeller.arpa tso@rockvax.bitnet
mikez@radix (Mike Zuhl) (10/06/88)
In article <363@babbage.acc.virginia.edu> mac3n@babbage.acc.virginia.edu (Alex Colvin) writes: >Is there a device available to link a PC bus to a VME bus? >I have a PC that I'd like to make a peripheral on the VME bus. > >If I can't share memory among the machines, is there a fast, simple, >short-haul link? I'd rather not use a 2.5 meter ethernet. Ajida Technologies make a unit that gives the PC a lot of control of the VME bus -- you can watch the bus lines, do all the funny transfers, etc. The drawback is that as far as I know they make just a MASTER-ONLY version, not a slave version, so your PC cannot be addressed by a VME master. You can detect interrupts and "DMA" out of memory on the VME bus. Their address is: Ajida Technologies, Inc. 613 Fourth Street Santa Rosa, CA 95404 PH: (707) 545-7777 If that fails to suit, we make 386 PC-compatables that plug into VME and/or VXI buses and do both master and slave. Send me email for more info. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Zuhl | tektronix!ogcvax!verdix\ Radix MicroSystems, Inc.| !radix!mikez Beaverton, OR 97006 | decvax!decwrl!mipos3!omepd/ Phone: (503) 690-1229 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
fred@inteloa.intel.com (Fred Christiansen) (10/06/88)
I believe one answer would be Radix Microsystems PC hw/sw on VME boards.
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"Children spell love T-I-M-E." | {uoregon!omepd, ucbvax!mtxinu} /jsnow@esunix.UUCP (John Snow) (10/07/88)
From article <363@babbage.acc.virginia.edu>, by mac3n@babbage.acc.virginia.edu (Alex Colvin): > Is there a device available to link a PC bus to a VME bus? > I have a PC that I'd like to make a peripheral on the VME bus. A company called Bit 3 makes a Model 403 IBM PC/AT to VME adapter which is fairly sophisticated. It will allow the VME bus to use the AT as a peripheral and visa-versa. The board is available with either an 8 foot or 25 foot interconnecting cable. The cost of the link is $1280.00 -- not cheap, but what is these days? Bit 3 is located in Minneapolis -- phone # (612) 881-6955. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- John F. Snow UUCP: {ihnp4,decvax}!decwrl!esunix!jsnow Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp. Compuserve: 71550,1152 BIX: johnfsnow Salt Lake City, Utah "Apple ][ forever!"