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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A1000 SOTS scsi harddrive controller sought
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Date: 22 Feb 90 10:55:37 GMT
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In <100185@convex.convex.com>, swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) writes:
>In article <11678@nigel.udel.EDU> new@udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
>>I'm looking for an A1000 SOTS controller that would allow the use
>>of SCSIdirect commands. ...
>
>For both the ignorant and the forgetful among us,  what is SOTS?

Slap On The Side. In reference to the way peripherals are added to the A1000.
I believe the phrase was coined by Perry Kivolowitz, though I could be wrong.

-larry

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