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To: Neil S who wrote (20927)	3/1/1999 8:12:00 AM
From: robert burr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

emc ceo reportedly scheduled for cnbc this morning. I am not sure of time. may be 11 am eastern. Bob Burr

To: Neil S who wrote (20927)	3/1/1999 8:59:00 AM
From: KJ. Moy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

Neil, thanks for the article. <<<For example, Gigabit Ethernet, despite its appropriateness as an IP networking technology, is a poor channel technology. Gigabit Ethernet's small 1.5KB packet size induces a large processor load because the processor has to service so many more interrupts.>> <<<Flow control is another case in point; using packet loss as a trigger for flow control is a waste of resources. Fibre Channel does not lose frames, due to its built-in, standard, flow-control mechanism.>>> <<< In addition, there is the issue of SCSI support. Fibre Channel has it; Gigabit Ethernet doesn't. In fact, ask any RAID, disk drive or tape vendor about its plans for Gigabit Ethernet--they don't exist. Without SCSI support, Gigabit Ethernet cannot circumvent SCSI's scalability and performance limits. Meanwhile, vendors and server companies have announced SCSI-over-Fibre Channel support.>>> This shows how shallow PC-Week is. The writer didn't bother to ask anyone for these pertinent questions. I didn't expect him to know the answers to all these, but he should have asked around instead of putting his foot in his mouth. I am glad Dr. Thomas Raeuchle, VP of Engineering at Ancor, took issue with him and clear things up. KJ