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- From: newark@befvax.uchicago.edu (Tom Newark)
- Subject: Re: Turbochannel Adapter for 4000-60?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.213536.8692@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Reply-To: newark@befvax.uchicago.edu
- Organization: University of Chicago, Dept of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
- References: <1992Aug14.151407.1@wharfin.mit.edu>,<1992Aug20.115911.24684@engage.pko.dec.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 21:35:36 GMT
- Lines: 55
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- In article <1992Aug20.115911.24684@engage.pko.dec.com>, jackson@pravda.enet.dec.com () writes:
- >
- >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.
- >|>
- >
- >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
- >
- >Mail: Jackson@pravda.enet.dec.com
-
- What I want to know is why you chose to support only one turbo channel
- slot on the model 60/90? This is characteristic of dec's lack of foresight.
- (The only thing worse was giving the 3100's no bus at all and a poorly
- implemented scsi adapter, the worst I've ever seen.)
-
- When you consider things on the horizon like multimedia, fddi, need for more
- scsi devices, etc... this is clearly stupid. You could have made an optional
- multi-turbo-slot card... Or is it that you wanted to make the model 90
- instantly obsolete when the alphas come out so you could double your sales???
-
- What does digital have against good workstations anyway???
-
- Tom Newark
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