17 May
2013
17 May
'13
10:25 p.m.
those are beaytufull if only i was not broke :(
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 05/17/2013 08:48 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
I agree. At the time it was simply a shortsighted decision, as were
nearly
all decisions that brought the PC into existence.
From a software point of view, ATA made sense. It succeeded ESDI, which,
in turn succeeded the ST-412 interface. In fact, from a software
viewpoint, it's difficult to distinguish a PC ESDI drive from a 16-bit ATA
drive. So, there was a software protocol that was somewhat smarter than
ST-412 already around, so it made sense to move that to ATA/IDE.
ESDI drives were about as fast as SCSI drives of the time--and about as
expensive.
Not that I loved ATA/IDE--early drives could be very fussy about what
other vendor's drives they shared the bus with.
--Chuck