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From: baum@apple.com (Allen Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Faster controllers easier and cheaper than fast CPUs....
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Date: 15 Mar 91 01:30:29 GMT
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In article <10951@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, torek@elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes:
> 
> In article <1504@TALOS.UUCP> jerry@TALOS.UUCP (Jerry Gitomer) writes:
> >Perhaps this is why the mainframers all do their own disk controllers.
> 

Interestingly, the first use of the IBM-801 processor was as a channel
processor for the IBM/370