Re: Finding developer docs for VME hardware?

2016-09-11 Thread Warner Losh
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > > > On 9/11/16 9:08 AM, Warner Losh wrote: >> Most of the VME gear pre-dates folks putting it online on their web >> sites. This means that what exists is on paper and since there was >> never the fanatical devotion to

Re: Finding developer docs for VME hardware?

2016-09-11 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/11/16 9:08 AM, Warner Losh wrote: > Most of the VME gear pre-dates folks putting it online on their web > sites. This means that what exists is on paper and since there was > never the fanatical devotion to preservation like the pdp-11 gear in > that community, most of it is gone to the

Re: Finding developer docs for VME hardware?

2016-09-11 Thread Warner Losh
Most of the VME gear pre-dates folks putting it online on their web sites. This means that what exists is on paper and since there was never the fanatical devotion to preservation like the pdp-11 gear in that community, most of it is gone to the landfill. Plus DEC's documentation is way better

Re: Finding developer docs for VME hardware?

2016-09-10 Thread Chris Hanson
No worries, I expected that I'd need to find the manufacturers docs. I was hoping though that someone would have a repository or something, like Bitsavers... -- Chris Sent from my iPad > On Sep 10, 2016, at 2:28 PM, Mark Linimon wrote: > > You just had to go by each

Re: Finding developer docs for VME hardware?

2016-09-10 Thread Mark Linimon
You just had to go by each manufacturer's documentation. I can say this with some authority, as I wrote some of said documentation during my several years at Mizar :-) There is the spec, of course, but that only tells you what each board must implement so it can talk to the others across the