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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (125750)	1/22/2001 1:31:09 AM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 186894

Tenchusatsu, You may be a little paranoid about McComas. He compares various technologies, and is bulish on some Intel technologies (PCI-X) and is skeptical about another one (Infiniband) and you come co conclusion that the author must be anti Intel. My understanding (which McComas clarified) is that Infiniband is mainly targetted to distributed tasks (connection between the boxes) and in this area, there already are some competitors (various versions of Ethernet and Fibre channel), so Infiniband will have to prove it's value. He seems skeptical about the use of Infiniband inside the box. I guess the distinctions of inside vs. outside of the box may be blurred in the future. Joe

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (125750)	1/22/2001 10:17:02 AM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

Ten, >By the way, Infiniband is the unification of NGIO and "Future I/O," not NGIO and PCI-X. Thanks for correcting that. I wrote it without looking it up, not my usual style. McComas is being pretty shortsighted in that article, making Intel look like a ramrod on Infiniband. There was an Infiniband convention in Las Vegas last September or so, that was very hot with activity from many companies, the big 7 and more. Tony

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (125750)	1/23/2001 1:05:23 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Ten - Re: "The author is Bert McComas, legendary think-tank of the anti-Rambus coalition. These days, it seems he is now focusing on discrediting Infiniband, even painting it as "yet another technology by the big bad monopolist." (Makes me wonder who is paying him to say that.) " No wonder. Bert the jerk is sponsoring the AMD-Non-Intel platform special - just as he did last year. The two of them (Bert and AMD) think they can lead the PC industry to somewhere new - like LDT - which is MIA. Paul