Path: utzoo!telly!attcan!seachg!jalsop
From: jalsop@seachg.uucp (John Alsop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: In defense of the TOWER (was NCR Series 3000 ...)
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.160145.18910@seachg.uucp>
Date: 26 Apr 91 16:01:45 GMT
References: <5900@holston.UUCP> <1991Apr8.161737.1851@cs-col.Columbia.NCR.COM> <105173@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1991Apr22.201104.28322@seac <403@wybbs.mi.org>
Reply-To: jalsop@seachg.UUCP (John Alsop)
Organization: Sea Change Corporation, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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In article <403@wybbs.mi.org> sleepy@wybbs.UUCP (Mike Faber) writes:
>In article <1991Apr22.201104.28322@seachg.uucp> jalsop@seachg.UUCP (John Alsop) writes:
>>On a multiple process read/write test, the 700 is about twice as fast as the
>>Intel box.
>>
>
>Hold on, now...  What kind of disk drive was in the intel?  MFM? RLL?

As I said, the usual benchmark caveats apply.

For the record though, the intel was using a Maxtor 170 MB SCSI drive with
a DPT caching controller.

-- 
John Alsop

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