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- From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
- Subject: Re: PCMCIA slot in Toshiba 3300SL
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.022555.9893@uwm.edu>
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- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- References: <wHJiqB2w164w@cellar.org> <1992Sep3.184512.7649@uwm.edu> <1992Sep3.190604.20016@cis.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 02:25:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep3.190604.20016@cis.ohio-state.edu> grichard@swimming.cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard III) writes:
- >I assume that a PCMCIA SCSI adapter wouldn't have the terrible speed
- >hits that a parallel port adapter suffers from, correct? I'll order
- >my 1.8 gigabyte SCSI drive tomorrow. :)
-
- I don't know. I've recently read that at least some parallel port
- devices can sense those machines which have bidirectional parallel
- ports (like at least some Toshibas). This would make writes as fast as
- reads. PCMCIA supports 16 bit transfers so it could end up twice as
- fast as a bidirectional parallel port. Current PCMCIA memory devices
- support speeds to 8MB/s.
-
- >Can you point out the exact PC-Week article you're referring to?
-
- Unfortunatly, I can't. I might stumble across it again however.
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