Re: i2o support

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 8 May 1997 19:04:37 +0100 (BST)

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> >so we ought to campain the I2O group to release the spec. See
> >http://www.i2osig.com for info. Their address and phone is:
>
> Any ideas on how hard it would be to reverse engineer this. It seems to me
> that this could be a great I/O system for an Intel based systems.

Im very very dubious. it seems to be based on sending all the I/O requests
to an offboard processor. The word LATENCY comes to mind.

Alan

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