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- From: mjp3783@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
- Subject: Re: '040 and SCSI
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 16:24:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.015517.26439@sarah.albany.edu>, tw5232@albnyvms.bitnet (Teddy Wang) writes:
-
- >Now this is a silly post! First off, you can get a used 2000 for around $500.
- >At least a month ago you could get the RCS Fusion Forty for $995. That's $1500
- >for an '040 machine! Add some 32bit ram and you'll be going 4 times faster
- >than a standard 3000. We're talking $2000 for a fully configured 17 MIPS
- >computer! Well lets, see I've seen standard A3000/16 for around $2000 (used of
- >course)!!! About bus speeds, unless the amiga gets someone serious to enter
- >the hardware seen (say someone comes out with a Zorro III SCSI-2 controller or
- >something like that,) you're not going to need the bandwidth. A good SCSI
- >controller will operate at about 1 to 2 megs per second, which is about the
- >maximum throughput of a fast SCSI drive (easily attainable with Zorro II and a
- >'040.) Yes if Zorro III had some good expansion development (like EISA is
- >now,)it would be worth the money to buy a 3000, but I don't know how you could
- >justify spending that kind of money on the 3000 - '040 but as it stands, Amiga
- >just doesn't have those devices...
- >
-
- Bull. My 2000 GVP 030/25 is nowhere near as fast as a 3000. Maybe because
- any graphics or sound or disk drive access or .... has to go through 16 bit
- ram. As for a Zorro III hd controller, why? The only advantage it would have
- would be major speed. The 3000 comes with a hard drive controller built in. How
- many people do you know that would be willing to buy a card that would give
- them ONLY faster hard drive access. People for whom 1 meg/sec isn't enough?
- Most low end hard drives don't even do speeds> that of the 3000's scsi
- sontroller. The 3000 also comes with a 2 meg agnus, a hard drive, a filcker
- fixer, and so on. It seems to me that the cost of adding up all of those litle
- goodies would more than make up for the price of the 3000 (which is why it
- sells).
-
- > ////////
- > // twang@thor.albany.edu
- > // TWANG@ALBNYVMS.BITNET
- > // eddy Wang TW5232@ALBNYVMS.BITNET
- > // Computer Art and Animation at SUNY Albany
- > New Illusions Albany, NY "Increase the Peace..."
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