Return to BSD News archive
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!emba-news.uvm.edu!trantor.emba.uvm.edu!wollman From: wollman@trantor.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) Subject: Re: SUMMARY: 486DX2/66 for Unix conclusions (fairly long) Message-ID: <1993Jul12.201746.24289@uvm.edu> Sender: news@uvm.edu Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility References: <1993Jul12.022002.16965@taylor.uucp> <mr2CA1Az4.J2E@netcom.com> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 20:17:46 GMT Lines: 16 In article <mr2CA1Az4.J2E@netcom.com> mr2@netcom.com (Jongyoon Lee) writes: >BTW, MFM and RLL stuff is encoding algorithm whereas ESDI, SCSI, and IDE >are interface type. You are comparing apples and orages. To be precise, both ``MFM'' and ``RLL'' drives use an interface known as ST-506, after the Seagate drive which first implemented it. (The original poster forgot to mention SMD, although I don't think any PCs ever used it. Anybody care for a used Fujitsu Super Eagle?) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@emba.uvm.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. uvm-gen!wollman | It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people UVM disagrees. | who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant