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From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: IDE vs. SCSI (was Re: If you were to assemble a new machine...)
References: <2hg0ju$j7r@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> <1994Jan15.165808.10213@kf8nh.wariat.org> <HVFcgc2w165w@oasys.pc.my> <CJvrst.4BC@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Organization: Brandon's Linux box and AmPR node, Mentor, OH
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 04:40:46 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Jan20.044046.22072@kf8nh.wariat.org>
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In article <CJvrst.4BC@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, doolitt@cebaf4.cebaf.gov (Larry Doolittle) says:
+---------------
| Would one of you SCSI advocates tell me this: would you rather
| have a SCSI controller, or the extra RAM that the same money
| would buy?  (or, to keep it more apropos this group, an upgrade
+------------->8

With 24MB RAM I don't swap, and I have a 2MB ATI GUP, so a SCSI card is
appropriate.  ---Note that there are other reasons for SCSI, like having up to
7 devices on it (not just hard drives) but needing only *one* card slot.

++Brandon
-- 
Brandon S. Allbery	   kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org		 bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org
"MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years
of careful development."  ---dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca