Xref: utzoo comp.sys.sun:8738 comp.periphs.scsi:333 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!rice!sun-spots-request From: andrew@alice.att.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun,comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: Why Buy I-P-I? SCSI is equally fast and 40% cheaper Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: <6671@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 14 Apr 90 04:48:57 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Followup-To: comp.sys.sun Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 5 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Refs: Original: v9n117, Replies: v9n117 v9n120 X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 120, message 9 Thinking ahead a year or so, SCSI-2 will be the interface to get. IPI seems like an interim standard that will useful now and for a couple of years but SCSI-2 seems the wave of the future: faster than IPI-2 (and who knows when people will bother to implement IPI-3) and backward compatible with current SCSI.