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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: EIDE support? (possible dumb question) Date: 20 Oct 1996 14:49:52 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <54de6g$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <53tsln$3je@harvey.cs.umd.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E jerryw@cs.umd.edu (Jerry Wieber) wrote: > I'm looking at buying a Gateway 2000 Pentium Pro machine; but I'd like to > forgo SCSI. What do you need the i686 for? That's ridiculous. If you care for performance, pick SCSI first, make sure you've got enough RAM for your intended applications, and if you've got money left, consider the i686. I've seen an i586/90 notebook with an IDE drive, it `feels' about the same as an i486/66 with a good SCSI controller and drive. Go figure. (And no, the raw disk transfer rates won't show you the difference, even if the IDE drive is as fast as the SCSI one, it eats up too many CPU cycles.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)