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From: clc5q@hemlock.cs.Virginia.EDU (Clark L. Coleman)
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Subject: HP Snakes Networking (Re: Fast I/O)
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Date: 20 May 91 13:45:25 GMT
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In article <13096@pt.cs.cmu.edu> lindsay@gandalf.cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes:
   [talking about "gigabaud" ( == gigabit/second?? ) CMU network development]
>
>Not surprisingly, the net will talk to the nearest Cray and Maspar
>over HPPI. With all respect to HP, I didn't hear plans for an EISA
>interface.

Nor would an EISA interface to a high-speed network be relevant to HP.

From the March 28, 1991 issue of "Electronic Design" magazine, page 133:

 "All three of the Series 700 workstations are compatible with the fiber
distributed data interface (FDDI) network."

The EISA bus is for disk drives and similar peripherals.

I wish I had a measly little HP 9000/720 for every time I have seen
the EISA bus wrongly criticized with respect to the new HP machines.
The rest of the industry can lump their pitiful SCSI products when
good EISA peripherals appear.



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