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Xref: sserve comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc:18272 comp.os.linux.hardware:2051 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5329 comp.os.os2.misc:125555 Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.os2.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!bonkers.taronga.com!peter From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: IDE bad? was Re: List of recommended hardware components Organization: Taronga Park BBS Message-ID: <D3t8BG.IJw@bonkers.taronga.com> References: <3g890k$cbl@ionews.io.org> <D3MwsE.KF0@sci.kun.nl> <D3ooGs.CD4@bonkers.taronga.com> <3hf3f6$fmi@gap.cco.caltech.edu> Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 00:35:40 GMT Lines: 18 In article <3hf3f6$fmi@gap.cco.caltech.edu>, Mihail Iotov <iotov@wag.caltech.edu> wrote: >What is so bad about being cheap ? Nothing. The problem is that IDE fixed the problems of the people who wanted one drive, no tape, and no CDROM. It didn't solve any of the OTHER problems that needed addressing, but because it was software compatible with the WD interface it let *vendors* get that one-drive system out there and who cares that when the people needed more disk space or a CD or tape they had to go ahead and spend more money on more controllers that didn't always work together very well... The price difference between a system with IDE and a system with a cheap IDE-performance-level SCSI drive, even when it just came out, was well under $100. Now they put SCSI controllers in sound cards, they're so cheap. An extra $50 loading on the initial purchase wouldn't have hurt sales any, and would have let people buy decent multimedia systems years earlier. Wouldn't that have helped sell faster CPUs?