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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Question: How to obtain the CAM spec
Message-ID: <13376@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 23 Jul 90 20:48:40 GMT
References: <1990Jul18.122826.11194@Matrix.COM> <602@entec.Wichita.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax (Randell Jesup)
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Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <602@entec.Wichita.NCR.COM> jlohmeye@entec.UUCP (John Lohmeyer) writes:
>In article <1990Jul18.122826.11194@Matrix.COM> srm@matrx.matrix.com (Steve Morris) writes:
>>
>>Where/How can I obtain the common access method (CAM)
>>specification?
...
>The latest version of the CAM draft can be found on the SCSI BBS at
>316-636-8700.  CAM-R18.ZIP is in file area 13.  But, you may need a friend with
>a DOS machine.  CAM-R18.ZIP consists of WordStar files in ZIP format.
>Also contained on the SCSI BBS are PKZ110.EXE (a program to unZIP the files) 
>in area 2 and WSCNVN.ZIP (a program to convert from WordStar format) in
>area 6.

	Messydos, yech.  Anyone want to transfer that stuff to a normal
interchange format, like arced or compressed text files?  A lot of the
world avoids clones like the plague.  Especially since SCSI seems to be
the preferred interface for Amiga's, Mac's, and most desktop workstations
(and to some extent larger ones), while various non-intelligent interfaces
(st506, esdi, "xt-bus", "at-bus") still seem to be the norm in the clone world.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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