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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
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Date: 6 Jun 91 15:42:56 GMT
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In article <1991Jun6.000019.4876@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> 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. Amiga SCSI has been steadly improving and
>dropping in price for years because of the competition between
>third party vendors.

Hardly any 3rd party SCSI replacements for compact Macs exist.

If you know what the current capabilities of Mac SCSI replacements are, please
post them.  Say something like "the fastest Mac SCSI board does XX MB/sec,
and such-and-such Amiga boards all do better."  If you can't, then you're 
just spouting BS.

For any Mac that supports NuBus, there are at least 4 SCSI II cards out.  I'm
looking at an ad now for one that claims 4.4 MB/sec continuous.  Are there any
mass market drives out that pump the data that fast?

Mac prices don't have to drop.  They can sell all they want at the higher 
prices and there are enough buyers with the money to oblige.