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To: Craig Stevenson who wrote (18333)	10/1/1998 10:35:00 AM
From: George Dawson	Read Replies (1) of 29386

Craig, Interesting but confusing article. If the PCI-X is a faster I/O bus it would seem like a positive for any connected I/O device. The problem of course is that speed has characteristically increased about 100 fold between the CPU and the I/O bus. This is probably what the Intel engineer is referring to with the "wait faster..." comment. I think we went through that exercise last summer when we looked at how fast disk arrays could read/write data and concluded that they were a lot slower than a Gbps. The comment about switched fabrics in the future is interesting and I wonder what Intel is up to. There are several proprietary clustering schemes that depend on low-latency routers. Some of them get around the I/O bus speed problem by attaching to the main system bus. Makes me wonder if Intel is getting into FC fabrics? George

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