Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!tekcrl!tekgvs!keithe
From: keithe@tekgvs.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Buying a 386 machine?
Message-ID: <3399@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
Date: 30 Apr 88 23:46:10 GMT
References: <21771@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <21986@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <21986@bu-cs.BU.EDU> madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost) writes:
>In article <21771@bu-cs.BU.EDU> mds@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Michael Siegel) writes:
>
>If you buy a 386 machine and get a 65ms hard drive, you're crazy.  In
>my experience, the hard drive is often the bottleneck to a PC's
>user-apparent speed -- with a 386 machine, this would be painfully
>obvious.

For a screaming combination get a CDC Wren III (~150 Mbytes) or a
Wren IV (~285 Mbytes) and a Western Digital WD 7000 ASC controller.

Core27 reports a transfer rate of 1.049 Mbytes per sec, average seek
time less than 24 msec, Track to Track of less than 10 mSec.

Who needs a RAM-disk with that kind of speed :-)

Now if I could just get a SCSI driver for [Interactive|Microport]
UNIX I'd be set...

keith