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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Keywords: Future, Amiga, etc.
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.041400.21828@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 6 Jun 91 04:14:00 GMT
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rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:

>  Apple put SCSI in Macs as standard and what happened? Hardly any
>third party SCSI replacements exist, and from lack of competition
>they are not very good. 

  Actually, there are several third party SCSI replacements... e.g.
Daystar's SCSI board, Micronet's NuPort, ATTO's Silicon Express, 
Storage Dimension's Data Cannon boards, and they are all fairly
impressive. 
  As could be expected, these boards are generally at the high end.
For example, the Data Cannon PDS board is a SCSI-2 interface which
plugs directly into the PDS slot of the IIfx, and supports disk
transfers of up to 10MB/s.  Then, there are Micronet's boards, which
support disk mirroring, SCSI-2 protocols etc.


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