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 | | Even though most high-end computers now include SCI (or, in a couple of cases, "SCI-like"), their manufacturers are not planning to use it to connect to other manufacturers' products, and so they don't see any reason to promote SCI as the open vendor-independent standard it was designed to be. |
 | | SCI began in 1988 in the IEEE P896 Futurebus standards project, when some realized that not even the best bus design would be able to support the needs of microprocessor multiprocessors within a few years. |
 | | SCI reduces the delay of interprocessor communication by an enormous factor compared to even the newest and best interconnect technologies that are based on the previous generation of networking and I/O channel protocols (FibreChannel and ATM), because SCI eliminates the need for run-time layers of software protocol-paradigm translation. |
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