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|    Louis Ohland to schimmi    |
|    A miss is as good as a mile Re: Did you     |
|    19 Apr 23 14:46:54    |
      From: ohland@charter.net              The local bus is between the CPU and the single chip SCSI, the BIC is at       the other end of the local bus and the BIC then connects to the MCA bus.              I czeched, the 8556 and 9556 are the ONLY PS/2 that use the Single Chip       SCSI. All other system-board SCSI use MCA connected SCSI.              You can see why this SCS caught my attention.              schimmi wrote:       > Hm, I thought, the Local Bus on a PS/2 _is_ MCA, like VLB or PCI on other       machines. Do I miss something here? :)       >       > Louis Ohland schrieb am Mittwoch, 19. April 2023 um 01:41:20 UTC+2:       >> Tom, IMHO this is about the most specific patent from IBM. No, you can't       >> build one after reading it, but it answers the design philosophy of       >> selling only what is required.       >>       >> It seems the design goal was to NOT support multi-tasking. What a       >> conundrum, a 9533 with single chip SCSI and XGA-2 vs a 9556.       >>       >> At some point, the irons should be removed from the heat and tempered...       >> Tomas Slavotinek wrote:       >>> On 18.04.2023 19:12, Louis Ohland wrote:       >>>> Tom, OCR or not, did you READ it?       >>>       >>> Not yet, Louis. I have too many irons in the fire...              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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