sysmgr@King.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney) (02/27/90)
>On the other hand, MicroChannel for I/O? How about support for I/O bus >standards? At least synchronous SCSI will be available, but how about >SMD-E and IPI-2? You need standard buses like VME and Futurebus+ >(if it becomes a widely used standard) to plug your disk controllers , >network adaptor boards, etc. into. > Actually, MicroChannel *is* a standard (abet one you have to go license from IBM). Gobs of PS/2s and clones have already created a near-instant third-party board supply. Besides, if MicroChannel works as advertised, dropping in other processors should be a piece of cake (And they wonder why OSF started looking at Mach as a kernel...) Doug