Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!usc!apple!agate!ucbvax!ucdavis!csusac!usenet From: brian@babbage.csus.edu (Brian Witt) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi Subject: What is Intelligent Peripheral Interface (IPI)? Summary: Where is ANSI X3T9.3 subgroup? Keywords: ANSI, X3T9, packets, parallel bus Message-ID: <1990Nov6.025820.15552@csusac.csus.edu> Date: 6 Nov 90 02:58:20 GMT Distribution: na Organization: California State University, Sacramento Lines: 35 History question: The ANSI subgroup A3T9.3 is(was) charged with creating an Intelligent Peripheral Interface (IPI). "IPI defines a scheme to interconnect somewhat higher-end peripherals [than SCSI]. to host adapters over a parallel bus. At the link layer, IPI sends data in the form of packets, much like a local network." What has happened to this standard? Did it group evolve or die? Should this question be posted to something like: comp.lan? Please reply by email if possible; I doubt many others are interested. Background: I was reading a reprint article from a July 1984 "Data Communications" magazine (copyright 1984 McGraw-Hill, Inc) called "New standards for local networks push upper limits for lightwave data" by two people from Advanced Micro Devices. The reprint is in "Electronic Press" describing Am7990/92A Ethernet chips. On page 4 of this little booklet there is a table about the standards groups. It likes the ANSI subgroup activits of the X3T9 Committee and charters of some subgroups. The subgroup X3T9.2 creates SCSI, the subgroup X3T9.5 does LAN's. In 1984 there was a group X3T9.3 charged with Intelligent Peripheral Interface (IPI). ----------------------------------------------------------------- You are what you click | (and if you click it twice...) Not representing Cal State Sacramento, the ECS dept, or Iraq brian witt | brian@babbage.ecs.csus.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- You are what you click | (and if you click it twice...) brian witt | brian@babbage.ecs.csus.edu -----------------------------------------------------------------