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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:8551 comp.windows.x.i386unix:7082 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.windows.x.i386unix Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel!olivea!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: If you were to assemble a new machine... Message-ID: <hastyCKtDGy.7wI@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <1994Jan15.165808.10213@kf8nh.wariat.org> <HVFcgc2w165w@oasys.pc.my> <1994Jan18.153740.25402@cm.cf.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 17:48:34 GMT Lines: 27 In article <1994Jan18.153740.25402@cm.cf.ac.uk> paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) writes: >In article <HVFcgc2w165w@oasys.pc.my> othman@oasys.pc.my (Othman Ahmad) writes: >>bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: >>It has nothing to do with IDE definition. It is more due to the lack of >>bus mastering controller. If you want performance, equivalent to SCSI, >>buy an IDE bus mastering controller. You'll still get the advantage of >>compatibility and easy upgrade but now it almost cost as much as a SCSI system. >> With that controller, I can buy an extra hard disk. >> >>It is all a matter of cost. If I have the money, why should I buy a PC in the >>first place. There are people who even bought a SPARC workstation. > >I think I'd buy a faster bigger PC anyway if I had more money. From what I've >been hearing a workstation class pc will outperform the bottom of the range >sparcstations. With the few thousand you'd save you could buy an extra gig of >disk and some more memory. > If you shop around in Silicon Valley, you can buy 2 gig disk scsi drives for about 1.1k :-) The manufacturer is DEC..... -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X