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  1. Newsgroups: comp.arch
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!newsgate.watson.ibm.com!yktnews!admin!signa!cecchi
  3. From: cecchi.rchvmx.vnet.ibm.com (Del Cecchi)@rchland.vnet.ibm.com
  4. Subject: Re: COMPAQ PROPOSED SCALABLE I/O ARCHITECTURE
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec16.164548.31201@rchland.ibm.com>
  6. Sender: cecchi@signa.rchland.ibm.com (Del Cecchi)
  7. Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:45:48 GMT
  8. Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
  9. References:  <1992Dec15.171554.2781@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com>
  10. Nntp-Posting-Host: signa.rchland.ibm.com
  11. Organization: IBM Rochester
  12. Keywords: I/O, Point-to-Point, High Performance, Low Cost, Bus
  13. Lines: 11
  14.  
  15. Why wouldn't you use one of the defined versions of the already specified
  16. IEEE-1596-1992 or Scalable Coherent Interface?  If you adopt the 1596.3 signaling
  17. levels, you will be able to buy the core logic from LSI Logic or perhaps
  18. National.  Dolphin SCI Technology will be happy to provide advice.
  19.  
  20. All in all, you are about three years late if you want to invent, but right on
  21. time if you want to use.
  22. -- 
  23.  
  24. Del Cecchi  
  25. cecchi@rchvmx.vnet.ibm.com
  26.