8 Dec
1999
8 Dec
'99
8:36 p.m.
Rumor has it that healyzh(a)aracnet.com may have mentioned these words:
Who ran the benchmarks? Most UDMA/66 drives I've seen are still 5400RPM and
can't hold a candle to the 7200/10000RPM SCSI3W drives for access times &
buffer sizes (or you'll pay *more* for the UDMA drives to get the same
thruput...) Also, even WinNT doesn't *seem* to support UDMA (tried to
install one... it puked.) so that means that the standard isn't supported
by an operating system. ;-)
Also remember, UDMA still requires a lot more CPU than any SCSI controller
worth 1/2 it's salt.
--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig.
If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
I've not
had a chance to install Solaris "7" on my box yet, but I'd wager
that Linux/Netscape on my box is just as fast... 'course, the UW SCSI /
Dual P2-350's might have something to do with it... ;-)
Well, if I could use the UDMA/66 drive as a UDMA/66 it would beat that no
problem. Unfortunatly I don't believe that Solaris, BeOS, OPENSTEP, and
maybe even Linux support UDMA/66's. It's my Multi-OS box so compatibility
is more important than speed, and it's got plenty of speed for me. The system didn't/doesn't need that much
memory, but I couldn't
resist it at that price :^)
Neither does mine, but the "ooh's" & "aah's" are pretty
neat... ;-)
To bring this (kinda) back on topic, is there a
freeware CoCo emulator for
Linux out there? (Actually, even a 6809-only emulator would be cool...)
http://www.multimania.com/jth/6809.html
Also, believe it or not, look at Xmame, it apparently can emulate the CoCo
now?!?!
Zane