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From: adam@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Adam Glass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Macintosh
Keywords: SCSI
Message-ID: <607@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 26 Aug 89 05:52:51 GMT
References: <7470@bunny.GTE.COM> <28164@news.Think.COM>
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
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barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin) writes:
> rc05@GTE.COM (Ramesh Chandak) writes:
> >What does the term "SCSI" in context of Macintosh computers imply ?
> 
> The same thing it means in the context of other computers. :-)
> 
> SCSI is an acronym for Small Computer System Interface.  It's an
> industry standard interface between small computers (PCs and
> workstations) and high-speed peripherals (disks, tape drives, etc.).

Except that Apple SCSI != standard SCSI (by the way, SCSI is pronounced
"scuzzy" - people who pronounce it "sexy" are maladjusted dweebs. "DUCK!
FLAMES!"). Anyway, for some reason or another, but perhaps just the fact
that They Are Apple, Apple decided to implement a nonstandard SCSI cable.
Maybe it was faster, maybe because it was smaller (25 pins instead of the
standard 50, which would have taken more space on the mac of the machine,
or maybe just because They Are Apple, the nonstandard interface was
implemented -- I don't know the reasons exactly.

Jus' hopin' to 'ave been of s'rvice.

Adam (don't ask me to explain what those "'"'s are about. It's too late).
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