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From: rhyde@ucrmath.ucr.edu (randy hyde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: Problems working with SCSI
Message-ID: <10427@ucrmath.ucr.edu>
Date: 10 Dec 90 16:14:22 GMT
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Organization: University of California, Riverside
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The only problem I have with working with SCSI is
that you've got to design a whole 'nother computer
system to do the interface.  Considerably more work
than adding a latch to obtain a parallel port.
From the hardware point of view, SCSI is a lot
more work.  Even from the software point of view
SCSI is a lot more work.  From the Systems point
of view, SCSI is probably the highest performance
(when done right) because it distributes the
processor load.  As soon as my board is up, I'll
be wanting a SCSI adapter for the PC so I can
get mundane interfacing out of the way.  I'd
still like to hang some peripherals off the PC532
since it runs faster than the 12-Mhz 80286 I plan
on connecting up.

As an aside, do XTerminals always connect across
Ethernet?  Has anyone found one which talks to
SCSI?  I think an Xterminal on the PC532 would
be kinda' nice.  Has anyone else done this?

Also, what's the current status of MINIX, GCC,
GLD, GAS, and G++.  Has anyone managed to
get GCC running under MINIX (or, at least,
producing MINIX executable files)?
*** Randy Hyde O-)