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From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Socket drivers for SCSI
Date: 16 May 1997 02:08:31 -0400
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sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug) writes:

> Frankly, I don't understand why anybody would want to use SCSI for high
> speed networking - it was never meant for that!

Let me point out that supercomputers lacking an interactive OS such as
nCubes are hooked up to their hosts by SCSI because of its simplicity.

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