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- From: jackson@pravda.enet.dec.com ()
- Subject: Re: Turbochannel Adapter for 4000-60?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.115911.24684@engage.pko.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Aug14.151407.1@wharfin.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 11:59:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug14.151407.1@wharfin.mit.edu>, lang@wharfin.mit.edu writes:
- |>
- |>Has anyone in net.land actually installed a DWCTX Turbochannel adapter in a
- |>VAXStation 4000-60? I have had one on order for about 4 months, and was told
- |>recently (in the last day or so) that the DWCTX is on engineering hold, thus I
- |>have not recieved on yet. Could someone please enlighted me and or the rest of
- |>the net as to the status of the DWCTX? I have a PMAZ SCSI controller and a
- |>stack of CD-ROM drives that I would really like to get on-line.
- |>
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- The DWCTX requires VMS V5.5-2 to be useful and is not supported in a prior
- version. This version of VMS will ship in the next few weeks, along with
- the DWCTX.
-
- |>I suspect what happened is DEC picked a part number out of the air, and then
- |>decided to see how many people wanted it before they actually put
- |>engineering effort into designing the damn thing.
-
- Ah, a cynic. Not true though. We had originally intended to get the
- software support into V5.5-1 and didn't make it, thus we've had to
- wait until V5.5-2 to get the software "in there" We also had some last
- minute changes to ensure that the implementation was the same on the
- Model 90 as well as the Model 60 (so you can use the same module)
-
-
- William M. Jackson
- Workstation Product Marketing Manager
- Workstation Engineering
- Digital Equipment Corporation
- 146 Main Street
- Maynard, MA 01754
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- Mail: Jackson@pravda.enet.dec.com
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