Date: Sat, 15 Apr 95 11:16:36 -0700 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@netcom.com> To: hm@altona.hamburg.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: Just how fast can we go... (was: Re: SCSI target) Message-ID: <199504151816.LAA03833@netcom11.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 15 Apr 95 18:54:35 %2B0200." <m0s0B7D-0002OfC@ernie.altona.hamburg.com>
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> SCSI-II is a good and well understood choice of interconnecting low and > medium speed devices. It's definitely better than ST506, QIC-02, HPIB, > SMD, ESDI. No doubt - it has limitations. It is better than those but it is much too complex for what it does. > I remember well the times when people were forced to buy proprietary designed > peripherals because SCSI was not there, and i hope, they don't come back. Standard vs. proprietary is a separate issue. Almost all new technologies start out being proprietary -- companies need a profit incentive to invest money in a new technology. Premature standardization has hurt over and over again. [I know, this is a gross generalization but not too far of the mark]. > When will we have HIPPI Hardware and drivers ? :-) Available on some commercial systems. The bigger question is when we will have a widely available & cheap system bus that can support 1 or more 100Mbytes/sec HIPPI channels? :-( --bakul
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