I thought this was an extreme linux list

[Alvin Starr]

On Mon, 31 May 1999, sct wrote:

> I wouldn't call SCSI a network interface.  It's really a channel (I/O)
> interface.  Calling it a network interface implies that there are SCSI switches
> and a more robust addressing scheme instead of the 7 addresses that SCSI
> supports.   Network interfaces are such things as Ethernet, FDDI, ATM, etc.

A network can be thought of as more than one computer connected together
over some medium. That medium could be SCSI. 

the newer versions of SCSI now support 16 devices and there are some
devices that will break LUN's into seperate scsi addresses so there is to
some extent the equivilant of switches.

At 80Mbytes/sec SCSI can make for a fast link between a small number of
systems and with a low overhead protocol it could help solve some of the
problems involved in trying to share memory across a network. 

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