2 Feb
2013
2 Feb
'13
5:11 p.m.
On 02/02/2013 18:11, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 02/01/2013 09:42 PM, Jeff Jonas wrote:
A company called Lingenuity did the same with a product called SCSI
Share, for Acorn computers, around 1989 or 1990. It allowed six
computers to share a SCSI drive, which appeared as two partitions, one
read-only for software and one read-write for shared files. Of course
distances were limited by the SCSI bus, which meant you needed decent
cables and all the devices more or less on the same tabletop. But I
have seen it working on more than one occasion.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Long ago when SCSI was young
and just an 8 bit parallel bus,
Ampro littleboards advocated using the SCSI bus
for peer to peer communications, not just master/slave.
Did anyone else do that?
One used to be able to do it with Suns, in the Good Ol' Days. I've
not done it myself but have seen it done. It was really quite neat.