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In article <1992Aug10.220747.16164@nic.umass.edu>  
a74k110@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Chris Lloyd) writes:
> of the machine it runs on.  There have been more than enough posts to 
> prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the NeXTs SCSI device driver simply
> stinks speedwise.

I have yet to see anything definitive on this. Sure, folks have done  
benchmarks that read 512 bytes at a time sequentially (ignoring that the  
NeXT always reads 8k bytes anyway, so the benchmark does 16 reads to get  
what would take only one under real-world use) and then calculate the  
transfer rate at 200k/sec and then compare that with what Sun *claims* in  
their marketing material, as proof that the NeXT has slow SCSI drivers.  
When someone takes a fast disk, writes a reasonable benchmark, and runs it  
on the NeXT and on another machine (same benchmark, same disk) then we  
will have some evidence.

M Carling
Director, Bay Area NeXT Group
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