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From: kevin@lasspvax.UUCP (Kevin Saunders)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att,net.unix
Subject: 7300 disk speed?
Message-ID: <339@lasspvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 11-May-85 13:58:38 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 11 13:58:38 1985
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Reply-To: kevin@lasspvax.UUCP (Kevin Saunders)
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Summary: 

>More specifically, the disk is slow, compared to the speed of everything
>else.  

Can anybody quote specs on the drives?  

>I mean, lets be serious: $7000 for a machine that requires over a minute
>for simultaneous logins on two terminals??? 

Two terminals in addition to the windowing console?  
The machine just dithers, and no wonder.  If this is the ($5000) 512K/10MB 
version, paging overhead will eat the machine alive.  VM and slow disks 
*don't mix well*.

Q: Is the 20MB drive faster?  As fast as the PCAT's (which is acceptable)?

Very Qrious,
Kevin Eric Saunders,
lasspvax.kevin@cornell.arpa

"I'm a fool--but I'm not a *rat* . . ."--The Man with No Number