MIT provides MULTICS source and documentation (DPS-8 simulation)

Doc Shipley doc at mdrconsult.com
Wed Nov 14 23:36:38 CST 2007


Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 November 2007 23:47, Chuck Guzis wrote:
>> On 14 Nov 2007 at 23:29, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
>>> This reminds me of one particular disk-copying program,  which would have
>>> the lights on both drives on solid.  You could,  once you'd kicked off a
>>> copying process,  have unplugged the computer and it would just keep on
>>> going.
>> Both USB and SCSI have the device-to-device capability written into
>> some specs, but it's rarely implemented.   ("USB on the go").
> 
> Which reminds me of a comment I saw somewhere about the possibility of having 
> a SCSI bus with more than one host adapter on it.  Is that even possible?

   Possible, and has been done fairly often in storage arrays.

   Google "multi-initiator scsi" and rock on.  :)


	Doc



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