jg@zorch.crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys) (05/25/90)
The DS5000 uses the SCSI-II standard connector.... This is the new standard SCSI 50 pin connector that more and more products should start using (much nicer than the old...). So it is not surprising if Sun and Digital now use the identical SCSI connectors on current products. For a bunch of (bad) hysterical reasons, the DS3100/2100 uses a 68 pin connector from the same series of connectors; this goes back to prehistory in the VAXstation 3100 program, and we did not have time to change/fix it for PMAX. I won't bore you with a discussion of the reasons for this strangeness. Some of us call this connector/cable "the bonehead connector". - Jim