🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <BrMG3I.DnL@csn.org>, milton@teal.csn.org (Milton Scritsmier)
writes:

|>>There is the need to connect disk drives in a most efficient manner to
|>>a computer system, not to provide an interface for a "much broader
|>>range of devices"... Or would you like to have your swap device slowed down
|>>by your scanner running over a commonly used SCSI bus....
|>
|>You can use more than one SCSI bus per system. There's no requirement that
|>all your devices have to be on one peripheral bus. Presumably most systems
|>keep their high speed and low speed devices on separate peripheral bus
|>if performance is critical. The question is can SCSI provide the
|>necessary performance.

DEC have put two SCSI buses on VAXstations for years now. Damn usefull.

I've been looking at the specs of an AMPEX tape drive offering HIPPI as
an option in the near future. Anyone got any views on whether that may
be a future solution for desktop machines?

Thing that gets me though is adding interface boards which double the
cost of a machine. 


Phill Hallam-Baker