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From: jtkohl@cs.Berkeley.EDU (John T Kohl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: taunted by happy extract command
Date: 21 Jul 1992 17:10:58 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In-reply-to: wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu's message of 21 Jul 1992 04:35:49 GMT

In article <14g475INNknj@agate.berkeley.edu> wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes:

> Seriously, it looks just fine. You'll
> find that if you get a SCSI tape instead of QIC-02 it will stream, and
> run circles around the other. SCSI really makes quite a difference.

This doesn't have to be the case;  an improved QIC-02 driver can make
the thing stream on (at least) faster x86 processors.  However, I don't
have an improved driver that I can give away :-(.
--
John Kohl <jtkohl@cs.berkeley.edu>
UC Berkeley CS grad student
Member of the League for Programming Freedom--details: league@prep.ai.mit.edu
(The above opinions are MINE.  Don't put my words in somebody else's mouth!)