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From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Macintosh
Keywords: SCSI
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Date: 26 Aug 89 17:22:50 GMT
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In article <607@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> adam@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Adam Glass) writes:
>Apple decided to implement a nonstandard SCSI cable.

Big deal.  If the only difference is the cable (assuming that no more
than 25 of the 50 lines in a SCSI connection are currently used), then
a converter cable allows you to connect a Mac to a standard SCSI
device or an Apple SCSI device to a non-Apple computer.  The important
feature of an interface standard is the protocol spoken over the
cable.  When Macs first started including SCSI I recall hearing that
there was something non-standard about their protocol implementation,
but I haven't heard mention of this in a while.


Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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