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Technology Stocks : Adaptec (ADPT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim Switz who wrote (4097)	12/1/1998 8:24:00 AM
From: Starowl	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5944

Not to be outdone by Switz, on these days of doldrums (better than the days of hype and falling stock price earlier this year), info on why SCSI isn't on the decline. The following from the SCSI Trade Association: "The benefits of SCSI are probably best identified by listing the reasons why anyone would use SCSI: - it is easy to add new peripheral devices to a computer system; because the development cycle for SCSI devices is very short, the latest generation of SCSI peripherals keeps pace with the latest generation of computer systems; - SCSI maintains high performance standards, which is why SCSI is still the dominant interface for medium and large systems; - because SCSI is an intelligent interface (the intelligence about I/O operations is moved from the host to the peripheral device), computer systems can use a standard set of commands to accomplish moving data between the host and device -- along with the simplicity of the SCSI interface it is possible to connect a new peripheral device to an existing system with no hardware changes or additional hardware parts; - SCSI has a demonstrated track record of keeping pace with the growing and evolving requirements of desktop and server systems; and - using SCSI both preserves the investments of installed-base environments AND maintains a platform for the future enhancements of benefits of tomorrow's SCSI systems." And if you REALLY want to learn about SCSI, see the following 18-pager (need Adobe Acrobat Reader)-- a very useful document: scsita.org Starowl