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From: msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (Mark Smith)
Subject: Re: CSC AK-47
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Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 01:36:34 GMT
References: <43vnpp$m0k@bdt.bdt.com> <4410i6$kmu@nntp.interaccess.com> <442652$cma@nimitz.fibr.net> <444k1v$3ov@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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In article <444k1v$3ov@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>Rob Snow  <rsnow@txdirect.net> wrote:
>>Similar, but the CSC AK-47 is a full bus masacaring controller.  It also
>>supports 7.62mb DOA transfers.  If I remember it also has a 50round SCSI-II
>>dense cable port. (tough to find the cables anymore, mostly you only get the
>>10round SCSI-II cables)  Oh, It has forged chips as opposed to stamped.
>>
>>:-)
>
>But you can easily upgrade it to the AK-74, which supports 5.56mb DOA
>transfers.  Despite of this, it's faster, about 20 % i think.
>

No, the AK-74 has a 5.46 transfer while the AR-15 uses the 5.56.

<G>

Mark

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