Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!scooter!neoucom!wtm
From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: NeXT
Summary: access time of Canon Optical drive
Message-ID: <1373@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 18 Oct 88 14:19:40 GMT
References: <4450@polya.Stanford.EDU> <1372@neoucom.UUCP>
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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In article <1372@neoucom.UUCP>, wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
> 
> What is the access time of the Canon dtive?

According to a blurb in Infoworld, the access time for a 1/3 stroke
seek is average 93 mS.  They cite that NeXT claims that their
averave access time is 60 mS.

Even 60 mS, isn't exactly stellar performance, so that optional $2K
(US funds) add-on Winchester looks more like a reality for people
that want to do some serious hacking.

There was also an article in this news group that intimated that
the display was hard-wired into one frame buffer.  Infoworld
intimated that the display is double-buffered.  They are
journalists rather than computer scientists, so anything they
report should be given an appropriate amount of skeptacism.


--Bill