[email protected] (John McKown) writes: > Thanks. I was thinking of the CPs used by user software. It's interesting > that the I/O channels use a Power chip.
In 1988, I was asked to help LLNL standardize some serial stuff they had ... which quickly becomes the fibre channel standard ... one of the early implementations was for rs/6000 circa 1991. later some POK channel engineers become involved and define a heavy-weight protocol running over fibre-channel standard that drastically reduces the native throughput ... eventually released as FICON http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
