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- From: sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis)
- Subject: Re: What's the real difference between QIC-40 and QIC-80?
- References: <1993Jan5.134512.710@grebyn.com> <1993Jan6.091131.12040@engr.uark.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 02:50:54 GMT
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- Reply-To: sonny@trantor.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis)
- Organization: Advanced Technology Dept., Harris ESS, Melbourne, FL
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- >richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel) writes:
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- >>What feature is it that makes the DC2120 tape store 120M on a Jumbo
- >>250 and only 60M on a Jumbo 120? Does QIC-80 have twice as many
-
- Isn't the only difference between the Jumbo 250 and the
- Jumbo 120 that the 250 employs on-the-fly data compression algorithms
- (sorta like Stacker) to squeeze roughly twice as much data (on the average)
- onto the tape as the 120?
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- Aren't the on-tape capacities and recording hardware the same?
- Just that software (firmware?) has squeezed the redundancy from the
- data presented to the 250?
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- Are OS/2 drivers yet available for the Jumbos?
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