Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!daveh
From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: SCSI
Keywords: SCSI
Message-ID: <13907@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 20 Aug 90 20:01:23 GMT
References: <757@nixbur.UUCP> <354@news.nd.edu>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <354@news.nd.edu> przemek@liszt.helios.nd.edu (Przemek Klosowski) writes:
>Someone asked on the net what makes the SCSI bus so popular, given the 
>modest 5MB/s thruput. 

One might ask what makes the PC-AT bus so popular, given the modest 4MB/s
thruput.  My guess is that, until recently, there hasn't been all that much
need for things on the desktop that go faster.  Even now, most actual hard
drive hardware can barely manage 1.5MB/s or so.  

>			przemek klosowski (przemek@ndcva.cc.nd.edu)


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