-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> So yeah, they used to make machines designed to run Unix. People stopped > buying them, so they stopped making them for the most part. Even Apple > stopped thinking different and now uses pee-cee hardware. I guess Sun > probably still makes sparcstations, anybody else? A lot of military and industrial real-time machines are based on VME bus. It never got huge, but it never went away either. It uses a vectored interrupt system with 7 priority levels. It has neat multiprocessing features, too. It's grown some cruft over the years, because of he necessity to transcend the inherent limitations of a parallel bus. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
