<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494543936770_8530" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494543936770_8529"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494543936770_8528"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494543936770_8550"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494543936770_8548" size="2" face="Arial"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494543936770_8762" size="1"></font><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494543936770_8706"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494543936770_8548" size="2" face="Arial">Johnny Billquist wrote:</font></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494543936770_8705"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494543936770_8548" size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br></span></b></font></div><i>> Well, MSCP was a good solution, and it's rather funny to now watch SATA <br clear="none">> and SAS, which is almost a carbon copy of MSCP and DSI, but 20 years later.<br clear="none"></i><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494543936770_8704"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Unless I am mistaken, SCSI (at least in the form of SASI) preceded MSCP chronologically and perhaps inspired the latter.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494543936770_8702"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1494543936770_8701">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.<br></div></div></div> </div> </div></div></body></html>