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- From: aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jan T. Kim)
- Subject: Re: Falcon mass storage (was: NoiseTrackers for the Falcon?)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.081226.152704@rrz.uni-koeln.de>
- Reply-To: kim@vax.mpiz-koeln.mpg.dbp.de
- Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne, F. R. Germany
- References: <1992Aug18.183320.122315@rrz.uni-koeln.de> <l93339INN5o2@aludra.usc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 08:12:26 GMT
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- In <l93339INN5o2@aludra.usc.edu> baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Aug18.183320.122315@rrz.uni-koeln.de> aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jan T. Kim) writes:
- >>Hi folks,
- >>
- >>in that c't article about the Falcon (issue sept. '92) I've read
- >>that the Falcon was capable of producing sound in stereo CD
- >>quality. The only serious limitation they talk about is mass
- >>storage capacity.
-
- > I don't know what you mean by "serious limitation ... [of] mass
- >storage capacity" - it has a SCSI-2 interface - not only bu**-kicking fast
- >(upwards of 10MB/s - I'd _love_ to see a music-data-stream requiring a
- >throughput greater than THAT!) but it can handle 7 of them. If you are
- >referring to the limitations of the internal drive - now that is a different
- >story.
-
- Well, I was kinda confused... I mixed up the september article
- mentioned above and another one that appeared ni c't august '92.
- In the latter one they note that the Falcon could serve as a
- basis for a hard disk recorder, but that a drastic amound of hard
- disc capacity would have to be added for this purpose as one
- minute recording in CD qualtiy gobbles up 10 MB.
- Regarding the data throughput speed, in the september article it
- is said that the system bus is the bottleneck, it limits the
- performance to 1 MB/s.
-
- Greetinx, Jan
-
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