Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!ditmela!yarra!melba.bby.oz.au!leo!gnb From: gnb@bby.oz.au (Gregory N. Bond) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Fiber channels (was Re: The Killer Micro From Hell) Message-ID: Date: 15 Jan 90 22:40:44 GMT References: <34030@mips.mips.COM> <4322@nttmhs.ntt.JP> <39807@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <3101@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> <40043@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <47800@sgi.sgi.com> <94@zds-ux.UUCP> <28758@amdcad.AMD.COM> <28795@amdcad.AMD.COM> Sender: news@melba.bby.oz.au Organization: Burdett, Buckeridge and Young Ltd. Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: ching@pepsi.amd.com's message of 14 Jan 90 20:22:32 GMT In article <28795@amdcad.AMD.COM> ching@pepsi.amd.com (Mike Ching) writes: You could send data over 2 kilometers using fiber. Using copper would make the component cost $40 and the distance 30-100 meters depending on the quality of the coax. Anyway we decided that the low demand for differential SCSI meant it wouldn't have wide appeal either. (BTW, we weren't trying to build these. Just considering it for an application note for the chips. Our business is ICs.) Wow. I reckon there would be a market for this. How often have I cursed having to walk down 3 flights of stairs to get to the machine room to change a cartridge tape? When the tapes live in the storeroom on my floor? Run a fibre scsi bus to an unused corner of my office, stick the tape drive there, and no more walking, and no dumping across the ethernet! Where do I order? Greg. -- Gregory Bond, Burdett Buckeridge & Young Ltd, Melbourne, Australia Internet: gnb@melba.bby.oz.au non-MX: gnb%melba.bby.oz@uunet.uu.net Uucp: {uunet,pyramid,ubc-cs,ukc,mcvax,prlb2,nttlab...}!munnari!melba.bby.oz!gnb