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From: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald)
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Subject: Re: DEC to go with 4mm DAT technology ...
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Date: 13 Nov 89 18:27:40 GMT
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In-reply-to: scs@itivax.iti.org's message of 13 Nov 89 16:07:48 GMT


from my understanding, the advantage of 4mm DAT drives is faster and
more precise seeking. Allegedly, you can use one like an old DECtape,
and read/write explicit blocks.

allegedly 8mm drives, like exebyte, have startup/stopdown times that
make fore more difficult block-by-block operation.

I don't know how much of this is BS from bad trade rags, but it's what
I heard.

Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Colorado at Boulder	(grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu)