[geeks] Strange idea in VAX

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Bjorn Ramqvist wrote:

> > Ok.  I wonder what would happen if I stuck a DWBUA in the BI cage of my
> > VAX 7000-650, and added a UNIBUS cabinet, then I were to take a Qniverter
> > and add a Qbus framebuffer?
>
> Uhm.. You have BI on your 7000? I thought those beasts only came with
> LSB (LaserBus) for proc/mem and XMI for I/O, and some oddball
> "FutureBus" converter.

Sure.  There's just an XMI->BI bridge (whose name escapes me right now).
Most 7000's don't have Futurebus.  The vast majority only have Laserbus
and XMI.

Peace...  Sridhar