[Info-vax] DLT drives and antique SCSI compatibility (was: Re: Next release of OpenVMS x86_)

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <450786f2-4105-491c-9465-65c72fec4650o at googlegroups.com>,
Terry Kennedy <terry-groups at glaver.org> writes: 

> Yes. People were believing that there were things like "DEC SCSI", "Sun SCSI",
> "Apple SCSI" and so forth. Part of that was ambiguous parts in the SCSI
> specification and part was that each vendor was implementing their own 
> controllers and drives and didn't do any compatibility testing with gear 
> from other vendors. 

Neither of the "S"s is "SCSI" stands for "standard".  :-|