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To: Erwin Sanders who wrote (6215)	9/5/1999 3:49:00 PM
From: James Connolly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10309

I2O: A Good Fit for New I/O Buses, Fabrics. wrs.com Two quotes from the article. "Independent of both specific I/O devices and the host CPU?s operating system (OS), but also of the physical mechanism that connects them" I2O is a software standard not a hardware standard. It is therefore possible to have I2O on PCI, PCI-X, System I/O or anything else. It therefore follows that I2O does not have to wait for System I/O. I2O is useful for lots of things, not just System I/O. Another outcome of the quote above is that the introduction of new operating systems will be much easier (less messing around with drivers). For this reason the Linux camp will be fully behind I2O. "The I2O architecture will very likely help the server industry ease the transition to new buses and I/O fabrics" Now that the NGIO/FIO thing has been sorted out I2O is no longer caught up in the negotiations minefield. Now I2O is free again to do it's own thing. The fact that System I/O is on the 2001 horizon just makes I2O all the more appealing in my view. Regards JC.