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

[Terry Kennedy]

On Sunday, July 12, 2020 at 5:02:38 AM UTC-4, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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".  :-|

People should look at this classic SCSI FAQ (Facetiously Answered Questions) by Dan Smith from nearly 25 years ago: http://www.dpbsmith.com/scsifaq.html