clc5q@hemlock.cs.Virginia.EDU (Clark L. Coleman) (05/20/91)
In article <13096@pt.cs.cmu.edu> lindsay@gandalf.cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes: [talking about "gigabaud" ( == gigabit/second?? ) CMU network development] > >Not surprisingly, the net will talk to the nearest Cray and Maspar >over HPPI. With all respect to HP, I didn't hear plans for an EISA >interface. Nor would an EISA interface to a high-speed network be relevant to HP. From the March 28, 1991 issue of "Electronic Design" magazine, page 133: "All three of the Series 700 workstations are compatible with the fiber distributed data interface (FDDI) network." The EISA bus is for disk drives and similar peripherals. I wish I had a measly little HP 9000/720 for every time I have seen the EISA bus wrongly criticized with respect to the new HP machines. The rest of the industry can lump their pitiful SCSI products when good EISA peripherals appear. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence." E.W.Dijkstra, 18th June 1975. ||| clc5q@virginia.edu (Clark L. Coleman)