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- From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: SUN Sparc1 VME bus
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.232622.17863@sj.ate.slb.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 23:26:22 GMT
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- Chuck Narad (narad@nonsequitur.Eng.Sun.COM) wrote:
- : In article 1755@ifi.unizh.ch, maffeis@ifi.unizh.ch (Silvano Maffeis) writes:
- : >Hi all!
- : >
- : >How fast is the VME bus in a SUN sparc 1?
- : >Suppose I have two special purpose cards in separate slots, one for
- : >external data acquisition and another for data processing. How fast can
- : >I transfer data from one card to the other over the VME bus?
- : >
- : >regards,
- : >Martin
- : >--
- : >Silvano Maffeis CS Dept. University of Zurich, Switzerland
- : > RFC822: maffeis@ifi.unizh.ch voice: +411 257 43 27
- : > X.400: /S=maffeis/OU=ifi/O=unizh/PRMD=SWITCH/ADMD=ARCOM/C=CH/
- :
- :
- : Very slow :-) Sparcstation 1 doesn't have a VMEbus, it only
- : has SBus.
-
- Sorry, bad answer, but thanks for trying.
-
- Sun has a product called a SparcEngine 1E which is basically an SS-1 (old
- 12MIPS version) with a VME bus interface. Force computers second-sources it,
- and has recently introduced the SparcEngine 2CE which is an SS-2 sparc engine
- with VME interface. Both are in a 6U VME form factor.
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