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> I recall reading some networking books that mentioned interesting ancient network structures a long time ago, such as ring topology networks or daisy chain networks.

IP-over-SCSI was great, you could throw 8 PCs on one SCSI chain. Put two SCSI controllers in each machine, do rows-and-columns, and you could have 64 hosts a maximum of 2 hops from each other, at U320 speeds, in the 1990s.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2344

Imagine a beowulf cluster of hot grits! Er, sorry...




> IP-over-SCSI

I've never heard of it, but given that it's possible, could you do theoretically do IP-over-SATA?


It's been talked about but as far as I'm aware, nobody's ever gotten it working:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ide/4D6A5B72.6040600@teksavvy....




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