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Article #20893Re: In search on the next generation standard bus
From: Kjeld Flarup
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1989 09:51
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1989 09:51
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I only have a two demands for busses. 1) They must be able to address at least 4Gbyte 2) There must be a fibre optics net interface. It is my definite opinion that Disk, Printer and all other I/O must be standarized to a net protocol. Using fibre optics for this gives at least the following advantages. - No direct electrical connection between equipment, meaning fewer errors and cheaper installation. - A simple plug, gives possiblity any kind of IO. - Lesser radio noise escaping from computers. - High speed on a serial standard. Note that RS-232-C with Xon/Xoff is about the only communications standard, that really is a standard. I would also like to note the INMOS transputers, which currently is based on serial links between modules. Moving into parallel computing worlds displacing parallel electric busses with serial fibre optics seems nessecary. Kjeld Flarup Christensen
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!kth!sunic!dkuug!iesd!kjeld From: kjeld@iesd.dk (Kjeld Flarup) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: In search on the next generation standard bus Keywords: high speed general purpose computer bus, open standards Message-ID: <1756@iesd.dk> Date: 24 Apr 89 09:51:40 GMT References: <23938@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Reply-To: kjeld@iesd.dk (Kjeld Flarup) Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Aalborg University, Denmark Lines: 20