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- From: gab10@griffincd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: taunted by happy extract command
- Message-ID: <2dDa02EF1bNl01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 07:43:08 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.213814.10944@athena.mit.edu> <14g475INNknj@agate.berkeley.edu> <14hgf2INNq7c@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <14hgf2INNq7c@agate.berkeley.edu>, jtkohl@cs.Berkeley.EDU
- (John T Kohl) writes:
- >In article <14g475INNknj@agate.berkeley.edu> wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu
- (William F. Jolitz) writes:
- >
- >> Seriously, it looks just fine. You'll
- >> find that if you get a SCSI tape instead of QIC-02 it will stream,
- and
- >> run circles around the other. SCSI really makes quite a difference.
- >
- >This doesn't have to be the case; an improved QIC-02 driver can make
- >the thing stream on (at least) faster x86 processors. However, I
- don't
- >have an improved driver that I can give away :-(.
-
- If you have the source, maybe you could pass along how this was done to
- the author of the 386BSD QIC-02 driver.
-
- Or is this a violation of "Intellectual Property"? :-)
-
- --
- Gary Browning | Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a
- | great idea hits you, and just before you realize
- | what is wrong with it.
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