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>>>>> SCSI is amazingly flexible, both the interface and the protocol.
>>>> And, in those days, in the interpretation of the specs/standards. :)
>>> Sure, as there are idiots everywhere.  But rare was the occasion in
>>> which I couldn't make it work.
> Yeah that was always BS.  People just wouldn't take the five minutes
> required to learn about what termination is and how to apply it.

It actually was remarkably tolerant.  I have discovered
triple-terminated SCSI working just fine.  I think I even once saw a
quadruply-terminated SCSI bus working.

> Doubly hilarious were the retards who loudly asserted that "IDE is
> superior because it doesn't need those annoying terminators".

As much as I sympathize with (and mostly share) your point of view,
actually, from the end user's point of view, that is correct: if the
end user doesn't have to even think about such things, it *is*
superior...for most users.  Most users would rather have simple-to-use
over complex-to-use, even at the price of performance, flexibility, and
complexity under the hood.  Witness USB. :-(

> Because the n00bs who designed the IDE interface didn't understand
> transmission line theory or impedance matching well enough to design
> it into the interface does not mean it is "superior".

They understood it well enough to design an interface that would work
without it.  (I suspect this mostly meant limiting cable lengths and
speeds, but I'm not a transmission-line engineer.)

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