| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 168.1 | DEFZA will do it | QUIVER::WEEKS | | Thu Nov 08 1990 11:09 | 5 |
| My understaning is that this machine is a TurboChannel based workstation
and as such will have FDDI support from the DEFZA adapter currently
in field test.
Phil
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| 168.2 | 5500 has NO TurboChannel | GUEMUS::SHELTONPA | | Thu Nov 08 1990 11:47 | 9 |
| The DS5500 is in the BA430 (same form factor as the BA213). It is
slated for a VME adapter like the DS5000 with the TurboChannel however,
those doing the VME/TurboChannel adapter say the DS5500 has no
TurboChanneland there is a different adapter. I am trying to find
out if there is also a parallel effort for FDDI.
Thanks,
Paul Shelton
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| 168.3 | 5500 has a (god forbid) Qbus | ZPOVC::HWCHOY | BRAINFRAG, brain-case badly fragmented | Fri Nov 09 1990 01:51 | 3 |
| the DS5500 has a Qbus with an VMEbus adaptor. I don't think anyone will
want to spend effort putting FDDI on a Qbus. And throughput from a
VMSbus FDDI board will be limited by the Qbus too. Can anyone confirm?
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| 168.4 | FDDI on 5500 | GUEMUS::SHELTONPA | | Wed Nov 14 1990 00:49 | 8 |
| The 5500 has a special, non Qbus, port which will be used for the
VME adapter. I was thought someone might build a FDDI adapter for
the same port. I have since found it is on the wish list but not
funded.
If one were to make an FDDI/Qbus adapter it would only use a maximum
of 1/3 the Qbus bandwidth. That would not be too bad since no disk
of Enet is on the 5500 Qbus.
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| 168.5 | Pointer on DS5500 | WEFUNK::NICHOLS | NEGD - Network Consultant | Mon Dec 17 1990 18:44 | 2 |
| The DS5500 has something new called the RIO bus. I would contact the product
manager Tim (PSDVAX::) Resker for more information.
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| 168.6 | Is it here yet? | CHEFS::CARTERR | Richard Carter. | Tue Oct 22 1991 11:34 | 6 |
| Is there any current news on the plans for/availablity of connections
between a DECsystem 5500 and FDDI networks?
Thanks in advance.
Richard.
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| 168.7 | 3rd party FDDI on DS5500? | THEWAV::KRUEGER | ULTRIX/UNIX Specialist | Wed Jan 08 1992 14:25 | 5 |
|
Is there anyone out there that can answer this? Is there any 3rd party
options for FDDI for the DS5500?
Ken
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