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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!cc.usu.edu!ivie
  2. From: ivie@cc.usu.edu (CP/M lives!)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
  4. Subject: Re: Turbochannel Adapter for 4000-60?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug21.151910.58316@cc.usu.edu>
  6. Date: 21 Aug 92 15:19:10 MDT
  7. References: <1992Aug14.151407.1@wharfin.mit.edu>,<1992Aug20.115911.24684@engage.pko.dec.com> <1992Aug20.213536.8692@midway.uchicago.edu>
  8. Organization: Utah State University
  9. Lines: 11
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  11. In article <1992Aug20.213536.8692@midway.uchicago.edu>, newark@befvax.uchicago.edu (Tom Newark) writes:
  12. > What I want to know is why you chose to support only one turbo channel 
  13. > slot on the model 60/90?  This is characteristic of dec's lack of foresight.
  14. > (The only thing worse was giving the 3100's no bus at all and a poorly 
  15. > implemented scsi adapter, the worst I've ever seen.)
  16.  
  17. No room for the connectors, probably. The graphics connector sits right
  18. where the second TURBOchannel connector would have to be.
  19.  
  20. Roger Ivie
  21. ivie@cc.usu.edu
  22.