Re: COMPAQ PROPOSED SCALABLE I/O ARCHITECTURE

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From: Ronald G Minnich
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:56

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In article <1992Dec15.194637.10009@eng.umd.edu> sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu writes:
>You guys ever thought of licensing TurboChannel from DEC and building a
>Pentium box/server around it? 

TurboChannel is a dog. 

Actually, seems to me they could look at SCI. Except they want low cost.
But if the CMOS chips for SCI pan out, maybe they will meet the cost 
range.
ron
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