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- From: d88-jwa@hemul.nada.kth.se (Jon WΣtte)
- Subject: Re: Hardware Protection Keys
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.175633.24609@kth.se>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:56:33 GMT
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- In <C1F3Ax.GGo@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Mark.R.Valence@dartmouth.edu (Mark R. Valence) writes:
-
- >I once played with a SCSI dongle that did not require a SCSI device ID.
- > "How did it work" you ask? Well, it simply watched for a special
- >sequence of bits on the SCSI bus, like 2A83F93AA9C0823BC09234C or
- >something. When it saw this sequence, it woke up and interpreted the
- >following bits as commands, then sent the results back to the Mac.
-
- >I think the manuafacturers said something like "oh, but the chances of
- >that happening are very minimal." Pah! If there is a chance at all,
-
-
- I was afraid of this. Please name the product so that I may
- stay away from it. Also, did it keep up with fast SCSI data
- rates possible, say between an intelligent SCSI unit and a
- fast mac?
-
- Cheers,
-
- / h+
- --
- -- Jon W{tte, h+@nada.kth.se, Mac Hacker Deluxe --
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