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From: storm@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider)
Subject: Re: IDE vs SCSI and performance
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References: <1993May13.182917.23510@mav.com> <C72CAw.B47@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <1993May17.190905.3462@gandalf.ca>
Date: Mon, 17 May 1993 23:36:53 GMT
In article <1993May17.190905.3462@gandalf.ca> ykhan@gandalf.ca (Yousuf Khan) writes:
>In <C72CAw.B47@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>
>I don't think that IDEs are available for Amigas yet, are they? IDEs
>as far back as I can remember were designed with the IBM PC AT ISA
>bus in mind specifically. Even the XT ISA bus was not part of the
In one of the few wise marketing decisions Commodore rarely makes,
they have made the A4000 come standard with an IDE drive.
From a *TECHNICAL* viewpoint, it wasn't the best choice, but
since IDE drives are so dirt cheap, you really can't complain.
Toodlepip!
Marc 'em.
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