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From: jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (J Fieber)
Subject: Re: BSD UNIX
Message-ID: <1993Sep8.004749.2438@sophia.smith.edu>
Organization: Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA
References: <michaelv.747102277@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <CCu0s1.29o@ssesco.com> <CCuHI1.M97@eunet.ch> <CCyo6n.LMK@ssesco.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1993 00:47:49 GMT
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>>>	Hey now! B^). I'll pit the 3000's 0.9 I/O performance against any
>>>	386 or 486 based system any day!

Well heck, my pokey old un-accelerated Amiga 2000 got better disk
i/o performance than this spiffy new 486 I'm using now.  I'm
using the same drives with an (expensive!) Adaptec 1542C.  Pretty
darn depressing I must say.  The price of EISA controllers
amounts to highway robbery too.

-john



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