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From: pack@acdpyr.ucar.edu (Dan Packman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Exabyte--SCSI or Q-bus *or* BI-bus
Keywords: 8mm, SCSI, Q-BUS, BI-BUS, exabyte
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Date: 8 Jan 90 22:45:31 GMT
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In article <9510@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> 
    eric@geology.tn.cornell.edu writes:
>We are contemplating the purchase of an Exabyte 8mm tape drive
>for our system.  There is a choice about whether to connect it
>to our VMS MicroVAX II (Q-bus) or to our DECstation 3100.

In a similar vein, we have an old VAX 8300 with both unibus and
BI bus.  What are the relative performance hits with the uni-bus
version of an 8mm unit versus a unibus version?

Dan Packman     NCAR                         INTERNET: pack@ncar.UCAR.EDU
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