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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: A primer on Apple II SCSI
Message-ID: <10497@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 6 Jul 89 20:21:43 GMT
References: <32829@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <32829@apple.Apple.COM> mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) writes:
>SCSI stands for "Small Computer System Interface", and is a national or
>international standard for peripherals and computers ...
>SCSI devices connected to Apple computers are expected by
>the system software to follow Apple's extensions to SCSI.

The real problem is that Apple persists in calling these products
"SCSI" even though they have the wrong connectors and follow a
different (though related) standard than true SCSI.  How about
picking another name such as "ASCSI".