[Simh] Adding storage to vax running 4.3BSD

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Fri May 12 02:49:43 EDT 2017


On 2017-05-12 01:15, Sergey Oboguev wrote:
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> Johnny Billquist wrote:
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> /> Well, MSCP was a good solution, and it's rather funny to now watch SATA
>> and SAS, which is almost a carbon copy of MSCP and DSI, but 20 years
> later.
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> Unless I am mistaken, SCSI (at least in the form of SASI) preceded MSCP
> chronologically and perhaps inspired the latter.

Right.

> SAS thus would have no need for MSCP as an intellectual ancestor,
> although for sure technologies of the same field, such as storage
> technologies, mutually inform each other in the course of their development.

I said MSCP and DSI. I was more referring to the DSI part of it, which 
is why I also was talking about SATA and SAS, and not ATA and SCSI.

I guess I was sloppy in my writing again.

	Johnny

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