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- From: cust_ts@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: SCSI cards
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.094021.6464@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 09:40:21 GMT
- References: <1992Sep10.181658.22524@athena.mit.edu> <1992Sep11.075614.6185@utstat.uucp>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 21
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- In article <1992Sep11.075614.6185@utstat.uucp> philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep10.181658.22524@athena.mit.edu> tracadas@athena.mit.edu (Philip W Tracadas) writes:
- >>
- >>Can someone say something about the RamFast SCSI and the Apple SCSI and any
- >>other apple // SCSI cards?
- >
- >The conservative approach would be to get the Apple DMA SCSI. The RamFAST
- >may be faster, but the other has fewer hassles.
-
- I can't resist.
- The RamFAST is twice as fast as the high-speed SCSI card under GS/OS,
- 3-5 times as fast under ProDOS 8. I can't recommend a "high-speed" SCSI
- card unless
-
- - you just can't spare the extra ~80 bucks
- - you don't use 8-bit ProDOS _at_all_.
- --
- -Tero Sand
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