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From: gab10@griffincd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: taunted by happy extract command
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Date: 24 Jul 92 07:43:08 GMT
References: <1992Jul20.213814.10944@athena.mit.edu> <14g475INNknj@agate.berkeley.edu> <14hgf2INNq7c@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <14hgf2INNq7c@agate.berkeley.edu>, jtkohl@cs.Berkeley.EDU
(John T Kohl) writes:
>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 :-(.
If you have the source, maybe you could pass along how this was done to
the author of the 386BSD QIC-02 driver.
Or is this a violation of "Intellectual Property"? :-)
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Gary Browning | Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a
| great idea hits you, and just before you realize
| what is wrong with it.