MSCP controllers

[Dave McGuire]

On Oct 1, 2007, at 5:05 AM, Jochen Kunz wrote:
>> MSCP is really like serial SCSI (or serial ATA), only done 20 years
>> earlier.
> AFAIK MSCP / TMSCP is also the protocol spoken on CI and DSSI.  
> (DSSI is
> just a "cheap" parallel cable variant of CI.) So the typical VAX  
> cluster
> setup with HSCs is more similar to a FibreChannel SAN. And I think  
> CI is
> close to 30 years old.
>
> DEC was really ahead of the time.

   Absolutely.  Every time I hear someone blathering on about "new  
SAN technology" I show them stuff about VAXclusters and CI.  I always  
get a kick out of the reactions. :)

           -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007