On 09/30/2010 08:27 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: >> >> Yup. We use them here extensively at my workplace. And you can get VME >> chassis and cards on Fleabay. Some cheap, some not so cheap. >> >> Mark >> >> > A few of those boards on Fleabay may have been mine at some point:-) > > I'm still glad the Next Generation Controller, and hence EMC, folks > didn't make VME-based hardware a requirement. > > Regards, > Kent Yup, same here. My latest replacement PC cost my $179 versus ~$500 for the VME chassis on Fleabay, and the associated card costs. But, in trying to make the software as accessible as possible, in a way I'm glad they didn't completely rule out VME in the beginning, and concentrated on making it work best in POSIX environment.
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