On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, John Stracke wrote:
> The second most common SCSI application (after disk drives, for which we have
> NFS) seems to be scanners, for which remote use doesn't make much sense; you
> have to be physically at the scanner to put the paper in.
Actually, there are valid scenarios for remote scanning. Specifically,
the high-volume document management scanners are often hooked up in such a
way that you dump a load of paper in them (ie: several thousand sheets),
hit the "go" button, and they're whisked away to somewhere else on the
'net where they're actually processed.
It's easier on the vendors if they only have to support one command set
(ie: SCSI) with potentially multiple transports, than if they have to
throw in new core firmware for each transport.
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Tripp Lilley * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://stargate.sg505.net/~tlilley/
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