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From: Dieter <netbsd@sopwith.solgatos.com>


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> 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.
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