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From: erics@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Dale McAtee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: SCSI on the Series 700
Message-ID: <4310163@hpindda.cup.hp.com>
Date: 3 May 91 02:23:08 GMT
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I believe it trys to state what eventually becomes obvious to anyone
who deals with implementing SCSI peripherals from multiple vendors....

SCSI and SCSI II are standards, but many vendor's products have features
that may "improve" on the standards, etc.  What I believe the statement
(my own interpretation, not HP's) you quoted is trying to stay, is that, 
in the real world, since SCSI peripheral vendors are sometimes implementing
things slightly different, the S/700 does it's best to interface to these
different "dialects" of SCSI

This is my interpretation, not necessarily that of HP, the folks that make
the S/700, disc products, the commissioner of baseball, etc.