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- From: arl@cs.hut.fi (Ari Lemmke)
- Subject: Sloow disks [despised hardware] (was: Re: Need 3c501 driver)
- In-Reply-To: nelson@crynwr.com's message of , 10 Jan 93 04:56:14 GMT
- Message-ID: <ARL.93Jan12202425@deathstar.cs.hut.fi>
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- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <1993Jan9.001355.12354@brainiac.mn.org> <726641774snx@crynwr.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:24:32 GMT
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- In article <726641774snx@crynwr.com> nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
- : I'm sorry you feel that way. There is no way to write a 3c501 driver
- : with performance proportional to the speed of a 386. What you are
- : trying to do is the equivalent to running Linux of a 80ms 20Mb MFM
- : drive. Most people would probably think that unreasonable...
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- Hey .. ;-) my 3rd Linux machine _has_ 2 * 80ms 20MB drives,
- it's not that bad ... nice and cheap (~$25) are those old 3.5"
- 20 MB disks .. suitable for printer buffer like that machine.
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- Ethernet compaired to 386 is slow anyway.
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- : -russ <nelson@crynwr.com> What canst *thou* say?
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- arl
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