User guide

20 DC 900-1333P
Freeway User Guide
Document Conventions
The term “Freeway” refers to any of the Freeway models (for example, 1100, 1150, 1200,
1300, 2000, 4000, or 8800).
A Freeway with an MVME 162 CPU board is a 68K-based Freeway 2000/4000/8800 with
a CPU 7, 8, 9, or 10 based on the Motorola MVME 162 single-board computer. The
handle of the CPU board is labelled “MVME 162.”
A Freeway with an MVME 2600 CPU board is a Power PC-based Freeway
2000/4000/8800 with a CPU 11, 12, or 14 based on the Motorola MVME 2600 sin-
gle-board computer. The handle of the CPU board is labelled “MVME 2600.”
Program code samples are written in the “C” programming language.
Earlier Freeway terminology used the term “synchronous” for blocking I/O and “asyn-
chronous” for non-blocking I/O. Some parameter names reflect the previous terminol-
ogy.
Revision History
The revision history of the Freeway User Guide, Protogate document DC 900-1333P, is
recorded below:
Revision Release Date Description
DC 900-1333A May 1994 Original release
DC 900-1333B September 1994 Added Freeway 1000 information
Updated installation procedures
Updated operation procedures
DC 900-1333C November 1994 Updated installation procedures
DC 900-1333D February 1995 Updated installation procedures
DC 900-1333E March 1995 Added more detailed Freeway 1000 information
DC 900-1333F May 1995 Enhanced boot parameters information, updated
menus, and added loopback information for AWS and
ADCCP NRM
5/24/99 Ginni:
Eric says to
leave CPU 7 in
this list in case
a customer
with an older
Freeway gets
this manual.