[rescue] RS/6000 board ID

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Tue Feb 12 17:38:13 CST 2002


On February 12, dave at cca.org wrote:
> I have been told that SCSI is primarily based on "bus and tag".
> 
> a. Do you think that's true?

  Not even close.  SCSI is a parallel channel request/response system.
It uses a "bus", and commands can be "tagged" but that has nothing to
do with the bus & tag channel interface used in the IBM mainframe
world.

> b. What machines/period was bus-and-tag used on?

  They started with the 370 series and are still in widespread use.

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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