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From: mr2@netcom.com (Jongyoon Lee)
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: 486DX2/66 for Unix conclusions (fairly long)
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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 20:04:42 GMT
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Mark A. Davis (mark@taylor.uucp) wrote:

: Not really, I was just spitting off anything I could think of at the time.
: Couldn't remember what interface it was; anyway, it doesn't matter.
: Yes, you are more than satisfied....  but what are you going to do when you
: need more than 2 hard drives, or want a SCSI CD-ROM or Tape drive or such?


Well, actually I *do* have SCSI interface from my PAStudio 16.  What I was
trying to say was you won't see a big performance increase from changing
IDE drive to SCSI drives.  It's simply not worth $200+ cost of SCSI bus
mastering controller.



Jongyoon

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