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From: rdm@hoptoad.uucp (Rich Morin)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: /dev/scsi BOF, etc.
Keywords: /dev/scsi SCSI user-mode toaster
Message-ID: <7433@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 26 May 89 01:21:33 GMT
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Organization: Canta Forda Computer Laboratory
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/dev/scsi is a proposed standard for user-mode access to SCSI devices.
It is primarily intended for use with "toasters" (scanners, printers,
etc.), as opposed to mass storage devices such as disks and tapes.  The
adoption of /dev/scsi by UNIX vendors would greatly ease access to the
UNIX market by toaster vendors, giving all of us more toys to play with.

The Devscsi Project is doing a BOF at the Summer Usenix Conference.  We
will present a summary of the /dev/scsi interface and objectives, and
give a status report on our effort to define and promulgate the standard,
and on related activities (e.g., the SCSI-2 Common Access Committee).

We will then open the floor for questions, comments, and presentations
of alternative approaches to user-mode SCSI access.  Persons who are
unable to attend the BOF are invited to call, write, or email for the
/dev/scsi paper:

  The Devscsi Project, P.O. Box 1488, Pacifica, CA 94044  USA
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