FW: FW: Liaison with IEEE P1596.8

Hallam, Ken MV KHallam at po2.mv.unisys.com
Mon Oct 7 12:54:00 PDT 1996


* From the SCSI Reflector (scsi at symbios.com), posted by:
* "Hallam, Ken                 MV" <KHallam at po2.mv.unisys.com>
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Wow! An interface that is both parallel and serial, high-end and low-end all 
at once. I'd have thought 1394 and SCI to be somewhat strange bedfellows to 
start with, let alone never envisioned the sort of mutant off-spring such a 
radical experiment in gene-splicing it might produce. (Is miscegenation the 
word I'm looking for?)  It's probably illegal in several states already. Are 
Intel and Microsoft behind this one too? Or is there some other corporate 
Yenta lurking in the background?

Ken
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From: scsi-owner
To: SCSI
Subject: Re: FW: Liaison with IEEE P1596.8
Date: Monday, October 07, 1996 11:44AM

* From the SCSI Reflector (scsi at symbios.com), posted by:
* Gene Milligan <Gene_Milligan at notes.seagate.com>
*
Regarding Ken's questions below:

 I only have the project proposal as an information source and so I do not 
have
really have definitive information to answer your questions but will take a 
stab at
it.

 It is proposed to encompass both and p1394.2 is described as an SCI like
interface. In fact I guess the project would apply to all SCI like 
interfaces.

 I don't know about the technology but the phrase "an upgrade from ... 1394
...  and ...  SCI" is used.

 It is one project.

 I don't think you are confused, just a victim of sparse information.

Gene



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From: KHallam @ po2.mv.unisys.com ("Hallam, Ken                 MV") @
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Date: 10/04/96 01:10:00 PM PDT
Subject: FW: Liaison with IEEE P1596.8

* From the SCSI Reflector (scsi at symbios.com), posted by:
* "Hallam, Ken                 MV" <KHallam at po2.mv.unisys.com>
*

Gene,

I'm not sure I understand this. Is P1596.8 a proposed IEEE interface that
encompasses BOTH 1394.2 serial and some form of parallel SCI? Is there some
form of new technology at work here? Or is P1596.8 a committee with 2
different projects, one for 1394.2 (Serial Express) and another for SCI
parallel? Or am I simply confused again about something everyone else
understands?

Confused in Mission Viejo
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