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From: wollman@trantor.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: 486DX2/66 for Unix conclusions (fairly long)
Message-ID: <1993Jul12.201746.24289@uvm.edu>
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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 20:17:46 GMT
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In article <mr2CA1Az4.J2E@netcom.com> mr2@netcom.com (Jongyoon Lee) writes:
>BTW, MFM and RLL stuff is encoding algorithm whereas ESDI, SCSI, and IDE
>are interface type.  You are comparing apples and orages.

To be precise, both ``MFM'' and ``RLL'' drives use an interface known
as ST-506, after the Seagate drive which first implemented it.  (The
original poster forgot to mention SMD, although I don't think any PCs
ever used it.  Anybody care for a used Fujitsu Super Eagle?)

-GAWollman

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