18 Oct
2006
18 Oct
'06
10:42 a.m.
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 05:53 pm, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I've never personally found SCSI to be all that hard to deal with.
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Member of the toughest, meanest, dealiest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of spac, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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On 10/17/2006 at 10:17 PM Jules Richardson wrote:
Interesting thought. I have some XT-class hardware around still, but it's
been so long since I've messed with any of that I can't remember -- do you
_have to_ have video or other cards in there to get past POST?
OK, so you can redirect stuff under DOS (or
another OS) once booted, but
that still means that on typical PC machines you get no feedback on the
boot process until the OS has control...
Of course, even the original 5150 had a serial port--most people just tend
not to think of it as such. Namely, the keyboard interface. When the AT
came along, it was fully bidirectional. Makes me wonder
how well SCSI would have fared had it been hot-pluggable
from the start, as that seems to be the main benefit of USB (even if the
Microsoft guys can't seem to get the software side of it right!)
You're forgetting how much voodoo factor there was to SCSI.