[Info-vax] DLT drives and antique SCSI compatibility

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/14/2020 3:35 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 7/14/20 12:58 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> And the Q-bus boards and drivers I was working on then ran afoul of 
>> the KFQSA, but that's DSSI and not SCSI, and the KFQSA is all fodder 
>> for another discussion.
>>
>> For various at DEC, DSSI was preferred to SCSI as it was multi-host 
>> and multi-initiator capable, viewed as better-specification, and was 
>> DEC-proprietary hardware, etc.
>>
> 
> I remember reading somewhere (back in the days when I was actually
> using DSSI) that DSSI was considered SCSI done right.  At least in
> DEC circles.

Well - very late 80's and very early 90's then I think DSSI was
better than SCSI. MicroVAX-disk tower-MicroVAX was pretty cool.

But as usual:
   higher volume => more revenue => more investment => more development

Arne