t...@harminc.net (Tony Harminc) writes: > One would think that Fortune 500 companies would protect their old > sites, but no one seems to have noticed or cared about this one.
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#68 ESCON http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#69 ESCON how 'bout all the san jose (disk) storage division of IBM webpages lots of stuff you have to go to the wayback machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20010810145013/http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/firsts/1970.htm the above includes URL for "The Fibre Channel Association" ... which no longer exists ... and apparently had robots.txt so it was saved by wayback machine. fiber channel wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_Channel from above: When Fibre Channel started to compete for the mass storage market its primary competitor was IBM's proprietary Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) interface. Eventually the market chose Fibre Channel over SSA, depriving IBM of control over the next generation of mid- to high-end storage technology. ... snip ... aka as I mentioned what I tried to do was evolve Harrier/9333 (precursor to SSA) so that it interoperated with Fiber channel ... rather than trying to compete. As previously mentioned Harrier/9333 (and SSA) was serial copper. above wiki references that FCS wasn't limited to serial fiber-optics but also supported serial copper. The current fibre channel standard web site: http://www.fibrechannel.org/ fiber channel standard wiki page ... lists earliest standard from 1994 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fibre_Channel_standards but work had started in the 1988 time-frame ... and as this post indicates referencing early Jan1992 meeting in ellison conference room http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13 there were fiber channel products by 1992. The big transition was going to full-duplex, asynchronous operation (simultaneous, concurrent transmission in both directions) ... as bitrate was increasing end-to-end half-duplex latency was becoming larger and larger throughput bottleneck. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
