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

[Pete Turnbull]

On 15/11/2007 14:59, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Nov 15, 2007, at 12:20 AM, Roy J. Tellason wrote:

>> 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?
> 
>   Absolutely...SCSI is a (mostly) peer-to-peer bus.  You can easily set 
> up multiple "masters" ("initiators" in SCSI parlance) on a SCSI bus if 
> the hardware implements the spec in a reasonable way and the OS' drivers 
> can do something useful with the capability.
> 
>   Communication between host adapters is also possible; I'm sure I've 
> even heard of "IP over SCSI" having been implemented.

I can't remember if it was Cumana or SJ Research, but one of those 
companies had a system where a disk was shared on a single SCSI bus 
between multiple BBC Micros (or maybe Archimedes) and the bus was also 
used as a sort of network between the computers.  As I recall it, the 
principle limitation in practice wasn't the obvious one of 8 devices on 
a narrow SCSI bus, but how close together the machines had to be because 
of the limited length you could make the bus.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York