werner@milano.sw.mcc.com (Werner Uhrig) (03/17/90)
The Sun Expert of December 1989 contains 2 articles which will be covered in the optional section in Thursday's test (to qualify for brownie points in SUN-related discussions): page 23: Interfaces: Coping with the Software Issues (Richard Morin's I/Opener column; this is a follow-up to November's column titled: An Introduction to the Hardware Side of Interfaces (yep, when you encounter references in such articles, you bet my tests expect you to follow such leads!) some hilights (fat print) in the Dec article are: Multi-point interfaces GPIB access SCSI access /dev/scsi "Programming interfaces SHOULD map SCSI commands" ^^^^^^ ^ *my* emphasis "Sun's kernel-level SCSI interfaces have varied both with release number and architecture" my version: reason 225 why I hat Sun !! :-) page 37: An Inside Track on High-capacity Disk Drives (by Lynn Haber) "Sun's 'open' bus architecture lets independent vendors design both hardware and software." [...and some lived to tell about it!! ] ...other than mostly 'fluff' there are 4 pages of tables with specs of drives from a variety of manufacturers ... oh yes, I fully realize that a few of you do not need to read these articles to pass the test, but you may want to get copies to put into that folder which you hand to the folks who come to ask you SCSI-questions (and which you get to hand to them with a big smile and a "here you go - read this! and do come back if you still have questions.... :-) -- --------------------------> please send REPLIES to <------------------------ INTERNET: werner@cs.utexas.edu or: werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Internet # 128.83.144.1) UUCP: ...<well-connected-site>!cs.utexas.edu!werner