August 1994 / State Of The Art

Back Of The Bus	To hook up any peripheral to your computer, you use a bus that defines what happens on each end of the connection. Here's a look at the latest contenders. - by Russell Kay
SCSI And Beyond	The old standby for connecting peripherals to Macintosh and DOS computers is more important--and more capable--than ever as it rises to the multimedia challenge - by Dinah Mcnutt
Purchasing Hints, Troubleshooting Tips	With the various SCSI standards and devices, how do you choose what equipment to buy?
A Glossary of SCSI-Related Terms	ASPI (advanced SCSI programming interface) A competitor for CAM, this has become the de facto standard.
Seriously Serial	The venerable RS-232 standard may be showing its age, but Access.bus and FireWire demonstrate that there is a lot of life left in serial technology - by Mark Clarkson
Pumping Up the Parallel Port	An alternative to high-speed serial is sitting right in your PC
Fibre Channel Speeds Up	Making its move onto the data superhighway, the Fibre Channel promises to break the speed limit for serial data transmission - by John Bryan
Fibre Channel's Five-Layered Structure FC-0 Physical Media
Sorting Out the Players	ANSI's Fibre Channel Working Group was chartered in 1988.

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