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From: FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A silly question...about PCs
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Date: 3 May 91 15:51:22 GMT
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After posting my question to the net I got several thoughtful
responses from people who said..."neat idea but here's the problem"

So I asked Randall Jessup about it and he said there are two main
problems.  One is that all current SCSI drivers (known to RJ) such as
the CBM one are neither designed to share the hardWare nor are designed
to act as targets to SCSI commands.  So a new driver would have to be
developed that would handle both the drives and networking.  Also
reselection, I suppose.  :)

So it isn't an incremental development like I thought.  It is new
development.  Too bad though.  I still think the idea has merit.  Built-
in inter-computer communications.  Sounds sorta like another computer
I can think of.  But *this* would be at 1/3 Ethernet speed not 1/20.
Worth a look by the marketing guys, no?

Dana Bourgeois @ cup.portal.com