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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A few questions
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Date: Thu, 19-Feb-87 14:19:24 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 19 14:19:24 1987
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>  This might be a stupid questions(but we usually learn most from that type)
>  BUT:
>     Does "SCSI" = IBM compatability ?????
>  In the Febuary issue of BYTE I was reading "WHAT'S NEW" and under the 
>  peripheral heading the magazine talked about a "SCSI"/hard drive controller
>  card that will support as many as seven "SCSI" devices.  I thought that was
>  great, seven IBM compatable devices off the Amiga, finally!! low priced hard 
>  drives for the amiga!!!!  But then I realized  I had no idea what "SCSI"
>  meant.  Does "SCSI" mean IBM compatability for hardware????  The article is 
>  on page 38 if you think there might be something important I left out.

While you can probably find SCSI hard disk controllers for the IBM family,
the standard IBM hard disk interface is the slower ST-506 interface.  The
Apple Mac PLUS sports a SCSI port, as do various other machines.  Apple's
presence is bound to drive the price of SCSI hard drives lower, though I
doubt they'll be as low as ST-506 for awhile.  The advantages of SCSI are
many, though; its a general high speed interface, useful for thing other
than just hard disks.  And  hard disks are available in SCSI form in many
different sizes, while ST-506 drives are commonly just 10 or 20 megs
(MS-DOS can't handle disk partitions over something like 30 megabytes).

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