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From: gnb@melba.bby.oz (Gregory N. Bond)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: The IPI fast peripheral interface
Message-ID: <128@melba.oz>
Date: 26 Apr 89 02:08:55 GMT
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Organization: Burdett, Buckeridge & Young Ltd, Melbourne
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The new Sun servers (SPARCservers?) use IPI disks for the high end
boxes, according to the product launch here yesterday.  This 
would
indicate that they are faster even than SMD disks on the VME bus. 

How does Sun do the IPI host adapter?

Greg.-- 
Gregory Bond, Burdett Buckeridge & Young Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
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