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From: atul@nynexst.com (Atul Chhabra)
Subject: Backplane Buses
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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 91 17:31:52 GMT

Could someone point me to recent survey articles or books on backplane buses.
I am interested in comparative evaluation and typical applications of buses.

I have heard of the recent trend of using the SCSI interface as a medium
of communication between several boards (instead of the traditional backplane
bus approach.) For instance, a manufacturer of image processing hardware
provides a SCSI interface to link his hardware to a Sun Sparc. This way, the
image processing hardware is treated like a peripheral. I would like to know 
the pros and cons of this approach. Any pointers to such work are welcome.

Please respond by email. If there is sufficient interest, I will post a
summary on the net.

Thanks in advance.
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