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To: Snowshoe who wrote (2606)1/8/1998 9:02:00 AM
From: Allen Benn   of 10309
 
Thank you for pointing out the interesting developments surrounding VIA. I do recall mentioning I2O's expected role as an inter-process communications mechanism for enhancing clustering computers, but it is nice to see standards emerging based on I2O.

Actually, I see VIA as one of possibly thousands of applications that are constructed on top of the I2O framework. Remember, I2O involves an operating system dedicated to handling I/O, so there are countless ways that operating system can be made to handle intelligently peer-to-peer communications, i.e., communications between two I2O devices. VIA is one of the more elaborate ones. Multi-media, particularly time-sensitive multi-media like MPEG2 video and compressed audio streams, are another. Voice processing is another. Non-intrusive backups another. Flexible communication protocols implemented in software is yet another, which itself has countless possibilities.

As I2O becomes central to exotic input-output processes at all levels of network computing, imagine what happens to an organization that suddenly is faced with implementing an I2O software upgrade. Without realizing it, large organizations soon will be using many thousands of instances of I2O in scads of network devices. I would expect most organizations to anticipate this and plan for ways to keep administration as simple. The best way I can think of to minimize complexity is to insist that each I2O be based on the exact same software regime, IxWorks.

Allen
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