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   From: kevin.bowling@kev009.com   
      
   On 2/13/26 12:45 AM, Louis Ohland wrote:   
   > Thanks to our glorious tech overlords, I can't findt the ultimate fate   
   > of Simulex Corporation out of Tustin, CA. They might have been merged.   
   > No sign they went bankrupt.   
   >   
   > Our AI overlords assume Simulex refers to a fire safety company, or some   
   > other simulations event. Fookin' worthless.   
   >   
   > I saw a snippet that connected Simulex and IBM working on developing   
   > IPI. Everybody knows that partnering with IBM always leads to prosperity...   
   >   
   > Lights out.   
      
   Yeah sounds like the whole concept was dead by the time the WWW took   
   off.  FC was already under way in the early to mid 90s.   
      
   >   
   > Louis Ohland wrote:   
   >> Not seeing any yet. Simulex didn't have a webpage. Haven't seen if   
   >> anyone bought 'em...   
   >>   
   >> Kevin Bowling wrote:   
   >>> On 2/12/26 11:37 PM, Louis Ohland wrote:   
   >>>> Simulex IX4000 IPI-2   
   >>>> https://ardent-tool.com/storage/Simulex_IPI.html   
   >>>   
   >>> Very cool.  I don't suppose drivers ever turned up?   
   >>>   
   >>>> Other than having dog-robbed the i960CF-25 off of it, it is still   
   >>>> slumbering upstairs in the Fortress of Solitude...   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Kevin Bowling wrote:   
   >>>>> On 2/11/26 1:12 PM, Louis Ohland wrote:   
   >>>>>> http://ps-2.kev009.com/ohland/8550/Hard_Disk_Interfaces.html   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> IPI is interesting.  I know it was used on some small mainframes   
   >>>>> like the 9370 and probably some early AS/400s.  Sun also used it as   
   >>>>> an option on some Sun3/4 era systems IIRC.  But I think the big   
   >>>>> frames were all bus/tag until ESCON and FICON.   
   >>>   
      
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