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From: korfhage@weston.poly.edu (Willard Korfhage)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: Networking for Distributed Computing
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.135111.14648@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 9 Apr 91 13:51:11 GMT
Sender: fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu (Steve Stevenson)
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At least one person has already made an SCSI network. In 1989 VXM Technologies
in Boston told me they had hooked up machines via SCSI ports to form a 
high-speed network for their Linda system.

Also, at the recent Symposium on Experiences with Parallel and Distributed
Systems, Marc Pucci described the ION data engine, which is like an external
processor that attaches to a workstation via a SCSI port, and this could be
used for networking.

Finally, in the Macintosh world there are already a variety of
SCSI-to-Ethernet adapters available, and one could build a network out of
these by running a lot of little point-to-point Ethernets (Ethernets with
only two or few stations on them). No reason why these couldn't be adapted for
workstation use.

     Willard Korfhage

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