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From: miner@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Rich A Miner )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ASDG & HD
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Date: Wed, 27-May-87 10:16:52 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 27 10:16:52 1987
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In article <2598@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> eric@hector (Eric Lavitsky) writes:
> ASDG's SDP (Satellite Disk Processor).... promises to be the highest 
>performance disk controller available.

While ordering some RAM from ASDG I asked Perry some questions about this 
controller.  The SDP will have its own 68000, an MMU to manage non-
contiguous buffers, a half MEG of RAM, and also DMA hardware.  The
on-board memory will contain disk speed up routines similar to some of those
posted to the net recently providing on board intelligence.  You will also be
able to program the controller to handle other file formats, perhaps for 
optimizing a drive for image storage etc.  Sounds like it will be a good one, 
Perry could not give a date, just sometime this summer.

I have no connection with ASDG I just am exchanging this posting for a discount
on the memory I ordered.  Wait, only kidding :-).
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Rich Miner  ULowell-Cntr for Productivity  !ulowell!miner  617-452-5000x2693r