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From: ghg@en.ecn.purdue.edu (George Goble)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: What is Intelligent Peripheral Interface (IPI)?
Keywords: ANSI, X3T9, packets, parallel bus, IPI
Message-ID: <1990Nov10.131218.4802@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 10 Nov 90 13:12:18 GMT
References: <1990Nov6.025820.15552@csusac.csus.edu> <10228@xenna.Xylogics.COM>
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In article <10228@xenna.Xylogics.COM> kriger@Xylogics.COM (Sidney Kriger) writes:
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>IPI-3 is a device generic interface (like SCSI).  It has not made it very
>far in the marketplace.  I'm not sure of any OEMs using IPI-3.  Little third 
>party activity has evolved.  IPI-3 is what you are referring to when you 

Gould had IPI-3 working back in 1987 on the NP-1 machines.  Nobody ever
made direct IPI-3 disks (and still don't), so the disks had a "DIM"
(Disk Intelligent Module) to convert between SMD and IPI-3.

IPI-2 is just now starting to take off in a big way in the last year or
so in the rest of the marketplace.

--ghg