Re: [TUHS] Old mainframe I/O speed

PCI was a late 1980s DEC design bus design that where released via license ala the Ethernet experience of the xerox/dec/Intel blue book. DEC had mostly learned it lesson that interface standards were better shared. I’ve forgotten now the name of the person who lead the team. I did not know him very well. I can picture his face as I said.

Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite. > On Jun 23, 2018, at 6:32 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt(a)update.uu.se> wrote: > >> On 2018-06-22 20:01, Clem Cole<clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote: >> One of the other BI people, who's name now escapes me, although I can see >> his face in my mind, maybe I'll think of it later), would go on to do the >> PCI for Alpha a couple of years later. As I said, DEC did manage to get >> that one public, after the BI was made private as Erik points out. > > Clem, I think I saw you say something similar in an earlier post. > To me it sounds as if you are saying that DEC did/designed PCI. > Are you sure about that? As far as I know, PCI was designed and created by Intel, and the first users were just plain PC machines. > Alpha did eventually also get PCI, but it was not where it started, and DEC had no control at all about PCI being public. > > Might you have been thinking of Turbobus, Futurebus, or some other thing that DEC did? Or do you have some more information about DEC being the creator of PCI? > > Johnny > > -- > Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus > || on a psychedelic trip > email: bqt(a)softjar.se || Reading murder books > pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol