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From: jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: optical disk? diskless?  distribution?
Message-ID: <10296@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: 18 Oct 88 03:32:16 GMT
References: <MRD.88Oct15140913@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <24828@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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In article <MRD.88Oct15140913@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) writes:
>2) [...]does the NeXT have enough IO
>bandwidth to handle a couple of FAST hd's?  

Probably.  It has this custom VLSI I/O processor Jobs calls a
"mainframe on a chip".  The NuBus runs at 2.5 times the speed of the
Mac II.  The SCSI runs at full speed (4MB/sec). 

Jeff Siegal