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Computing | Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) IBM's proposed ANSI standard for a standard high-speed interface to disk clusters and arrays. SSA allows full-duplex packet multiplexed serial data transfers at rates of 20Mb/sec in each direction. According to John Taylor, programme manager at IBM's Storage Division at Havant, SSA will be used in arrays of discs working with high-end computers ranging from mainframes down to LAN servers. Taylor said that SSA differs from the IEEE proposed P1394 serial interface specification in its ability to offer simultaneous multiplexed transfers from more than one disk or array. IBM also supports the P1394 standard which will be used primarily by desktop PCs for multimedia applications. SSA has received backing from a number of companies including connector makers Molex, ITT Cannon and AMP, disk drive makers Conner and Western Digital and RAID array suppliers like Dynatech and NCR. IBM expects to see the first SSA products released at Comdex in Autumn 1994 but it will be 1995 before the products ship in volume. Under an agreement signed with ASIC maker and ARM licencee VLSI Technology, IBM will use ARM-based chips made by VLSI to implement the SSA interface and VLSI will make these cores available to third parties as one of its Functional System Blocks. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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Crosswords: SERIAL STORAGE ARCHITECTURE |
| Specialty definitions using "SERIAL STORAGE ARCHITECTURE": SSA. (references) |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 45 52 49 41 4C 53 54 4F 52 41 47 45 41 52 43 48 49 54 45 43 54 55 52 45 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01000101 01010010 01001001 01000001 01001100 00100000 01010011 01010100 01001111 01010010 01000001 01000111 01000101 00100000 01000001 01010010 01000011 01001000 01001001 01010100 01000101 01000011 01010100 01010101 01010010 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S E R I A L   S T O R A G E   A R C H I T E C T U R E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0045 0052 0049 0041 004C 0053 0054 004F 0052 0041 0047 0045 0041 0052 0043 0048 0049 0054 0045 0043 0054 0055 0052 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5339524335462535449523541392355237424354393754555239 |
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