Re: Microchanel Alphas?

ketil@ii.uib.no
27 Aug 1998 09:14:04 +0200


Matthew Kirkwood <weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> We have a couple of MCA Alphas

Are you sure you don't mean Turbochannel? To my knowledge, nobody
outside IBM ever used MCA, and in particular, not Digital in their
workstations. I could be wrong, of course. TC, OTOH, were used in the
3000 series, among others.

Last time I looked, Linux didn't support TC, and unless you're willing
to do the coding yourself, it probably never will. One of the *BSDs
supported the bus, but at the cost of something else, graphics, I
think. You might want to check it out.

~kzm

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