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- From: muts@estec.esa.nl (Peter Mutsaers)
- Subject: Question about ISA/IDE disk throughput (pc newbie)
- Message-ID: <MUTS.92Dec21193512@PMCS.estec.esa.nl>
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- Organization: European Space Agency
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:35:07 GMT
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- Sorry if you see this message twice. I posted before but the article
- didn't seem to show up.
-
- In a magazine I read for a couple of 386sx PC's that disk access (IDE)
- is only at 200 kbyte/s. This seems terribly slow to me, especially
- for an OS like unix. Is this really true? Do 486dx's have much better
- IO speeds? How can UNIX live with such a low bandwidth. Are local
- busses much faster (how much)?
-
- Thanks for any information,
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