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- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
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- Date: 4 Apr 1996 10:03:07 GMT
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
- Message-ID: <4k06or$dnb@nadine.teleport.com>
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- Jeroen T. Vermeulen (jtv@localhost.dial.xs4all.nl) wrote:
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- : So I'm not so certain anymore. But according to Stephan Schaem, there already
- : are SCSI-III controllers on the market (and he appears to have used them).
-
- Here is an extract from netexpress:
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- Buslogic 930 FlashPoint LT
- o PCI to Ultra SCSI-III (20Mb/S)
- o 1 Internal HD50 port
- o 1 External HD68 port
- o Single RISC Processor
- o DOS/Win, NT, Win95, OS/2, Netware
- o Manuals and Drivers included............$ 129 Introductory Price!
-
- : Stephan, could you tell us more about those controllers you mentioned? In what
- : sense are they "RISC-based"? Why are they examples of PC chip technology when
- : they are supposedly processor-independent (and even RISC-based)?
-
- They are risc based because they have a risc cpu base controler to
- execute/optimize the scsi commands and more...
-
- But check buslogic page: www.buslogic.com for some information.
-
- I dont have the card, yet ;) So I cant tell you first hand detail.
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- Stephan
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