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22-94 : Implementing a Transputer {SCSI} Interface
        (Andrew Smith)

The work described in this report is part of a project to
investigate high performance communication network interface
structures which are compatible with existing operating systems.
The aim of the project is to increase the effective speed of
Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) for an application by adding
parallel processing power to the communication subsystem without
making major changes to the application programming environment.

This document describes the Transputer interface to the host.
This interface provides an asynchronous bidirectional
communication path between a SCSI bus and a number of Transputer
links. A mechanism for supporting Remote Procedure Calls between
the host and a network interface is provided as part of the
interface.