I thought this was an extreme linux list

[Martin Konold]

On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Alvin Starr wrote:

> 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. 

No, unfortunately the overhead of SCSI is compared to SCI and Myrinet
tremendeous. (Latencies in the ms range)

Regards,
-- martin

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