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From: billsey@nesbbx.UUCP (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A silly question...about PCs
Message-ID: <191126f1.ARN0079@nesbbx.UUCP>
Date: 30 Apr 91 20:41:21 GMT
References: <3216@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> <901@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <41587@cup.portal.com>
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In article <41587@cup.portal.com>, Dana B Bourgeois writes:

: Is there a reason why no programmer has followed up with a SCSI network?
: We have alternative file systems (MSH), and PD SCSI tape drivers and PD
: networking (parnet/sernet/dnet) but no SCSINet.  Is it really difficult?
: No one has a use for it, maybe?  If written to isolate hardware with
: seperate modules for Amiga and PC hardware it could be compiled for both
: and then couldn't the two machines talk to each other over the SCSI bus?
: Seems like such a Neat Thing I'm surprised there isn't more interest in 
: it.
: 
: Dana Bourgeois @ cup.portal.com

	I think the biggest reason is first that very few, if any, of the
SCSI cards for the Amiga support changing thier device ID, so you can only
have one card per SCSI bus. Second, no one is doing the software to handle
multiple hosts on a SCSI bus. Both of these have to be addressed before
anyone could do a NET: style implementation on SCSI.

  -Bill Seymour     nesbbx!billsey@agora.uucp or nesbbx!billsey@agora.rain.com
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