Messages in this thread | | | From | "Glenn C. Hofmann" <> | Date | Thu, 31 Dec 1998 14:53:33 -0600 | Subject | Re: Drunken mumblings [OFFTROPIC] |
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On 30 Dec 98, at 1:58 John R. Lenton wrote:
> I have a terribly off-topic question that only surfaced in > my mind because it could float better than most of my other > questions (good grief I had *much* too much sider and junk > at the party). I have *no* idea about what I'm talkin, feel > free to ignore me, etc. It comes from an idle (i.e. slightly > pickled) brain that just caught up with all the postings on > how lousy NFS, CODA, and Co. all are. > > Can a SCSI cable be used to connect computers?
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FWIW, I had an experience doing some work for Phillip Morris where they had me connect two (PowerMacs?) laptops with a SCSI cable (actually, two cables hooked together). I didn't really get to much of a chance to quiz the guy on what was going on, but it worked quite nicely. I believe that, except for the home made cable, it was a program run on the Mac which made the connection possible. This means (to me, anyway, not being a programmer) that perhaps somebody could write a kernel module of some sort to do this. Anyway, all this to say, I have seen it work, but don't exactly know how.
Chris Hofmann
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