Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!crocus!mjmcallister
From: mjmcallister@crocus.waterloo.edu (Michael McAllister)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT vs Sun3
Keywords: Next Sun3
Message-ID: <17434@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 21 Oct 89 03:49:14 GMT
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In article <13246@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> kean@nyssa.CS.ORST.EDU.UUCP (Kean Stump) writes:
> ...Optical only is a wee bit slow; NeXT has remedied that as of last
>Tuesday, by distributing a 40 Mb scsi disk with each optical only cube for the
>kernel to swap to (called the "accelerator").  Same price as the original
>optical only cube (6500.00 base) and, NeXT is (according to the campus rep)
>shipping 40 Mb scsi drives to those who purchased an optical only system.
>

Very interesting.  Can anyone comment on the speed increase with the SCSI?

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