Re: VESA local bus architecture help

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From: Iskandar Taib
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 01:19

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>frank@clark.edu (Frank Torres) writes:

>>Is the IDE hard drive controller any better than a standard controller.
>>If there is a difference I would like to know what it would be.

Apart from being stinkingly fast, no.

Then again can todays' Winchester technology take advantage
of the _potential_ speed? I've heard of sustained transfer 
rates in the 40 MB/sec range. SCSI-II can do 10.

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