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From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: A good 'personal' computer?
Summary: Isn't the NeXT SCSI port "just like" a Mac?
Message-ID: <488@wet.UUCP>
Date: 24 Aug 89 19:58:13 GMT
References: <21516@cup.portal.com> <3507@asylum.SF.CA.US> <6895@rpi.edu>
Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
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Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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In article <6895@rpi.edu> weltyc@cs.rpi.edu (Chris Welty) writes:
>This is a common mistake to make.  Having a scsi port does not mean
>that any scsi device will work.  Each different device requires a
>driver, and I would imagine (though I have never tried or even thought
>about it more than superficially) that porting a driver for some scsi
>device would be non-trivial to the Next, since it uses a unique io
>system (unique among systems that scsi is typically found on).

I'm not so sure about that.  In any case, even 0.9 has a "generic
SCSI" driver, so you don't have to be a kernel-hacker to play
with it.

Has anyone successfully used an Apple Scanner through the NeXT
SCSI port?
					-=EPS=-