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- From: flex@kuai.se (Anders Karlsson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Reports from CeBit
- Date: 21 Mar 1996 22:35:14
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- In a message of 20 Mar 96 Pete and Vicki wrote to :
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- >> EPP Parallel port
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- PaV> Oh boy, that'll be handy for all those stupid devices like the
- PaV> DITTO... hanging off a parallel port, giving poor performance... the
- PaV> sort of thing that brainless pclone users go for, because they figure
- PaV> that I/O performance isn't important. WHY can't they spend this money
- PaV> on SCSI???
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- That EPP par-port has performance in the range of 500KB-2MB per second.
- I don't consider that crap acctually..
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- PaV> Well, why bother with SCSI, when you can have EIDE right? EIDE
- PaV> stinks! The performance is lacking, it doesn't support enough units,
- PaV> external devices such as CD-ROMs and DAT as well as ZIP drives are
- PaV> great because you can just transfer them from machine to another. How
- PaV> useful is EIDE for this? *sigh* Again, Amiga Technologies saves
- PaV> maybe $20 per machine, and reduces functionality by 10 times. Well
- PaV> done, I'm impressed.
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- There is a new BIOS available for PC's that gives EIDE the possability
- of 8 attached HD's, 4 Diskdrives and a stunning top performance on HD's
- at 200MB/second. (I know, there isn't any drive that does that today.)
- So EIDE can be an alternative to SCSI pretty soon. For most low-end
- users (Walker is considered low-end) 4 HD's/CDROM's is enough. When
- they want to expand, they just get another slice for the Walker, get's
- a SCSI interface and off they go.
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- PaV> Have none of the engineers at Amiga Technologies got any experience
- PaV> with good multitasking/multi-user operating systems? IDE/EIDE just
- PaV> DOES NOT CUT IT! Aaaaargh, you'd think they'd learn after the
- PaV> A4000/A1200.
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- The A4k/A1k2 HD-interface was a common IDE interface. Not EIDE. EIDE
- has better performance and can have 4 devices instead of 2. FYI..
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- Anders Karlsson Dedicated Amiga User.
- flex@kuai.se PGP-key available on request.
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