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Re: SCSI

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (H. Peter Anvin)
Fri Sep 20 00:48:57 1996

To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Date: 	20 Sep 1996 00:48:11 GMT
Reply-To: hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin)
X-Comment-To: lefty@sliderule.geek.org.uk (Lefty)

Followup to:  <199609192054.UAA21914@sliderule.geek.org.uk>
By author:    lefty@sliderule.geek.org.uk (Lefty)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.net
>
> > Forget it -- the Mac has a very nonstandard (and _stupid_) SCSI interface
> > (designed by people who didn't understand the basic fact that SCSI
> > transfers are (mostly) driven by the target; the Macs these things were
> > built for didn't even do disconnect/reconnect), and the network driver
> > interface of these drivers is (a) 100% Mac-specific and (b) obsolete by
> > now.=20
> 
> coulda sworn that apple developed SCSI for their systems.. 
> 

Nope, SCSI was developed by Shugart I am pretty sure...

	-hpa

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Not speaking for Transmeta in any shape, way, or form.

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