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(...) :) Yeah, but I don't think it's fair to blame that one on Bill. The 640 thing was designed into the hardware by IBM. (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Specifically, people code or do graphics work -- for personal stuff, even -- and really _can_ benefit from scsi. (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) well, isn't there a famous quote of Bill Gates that "no one will ever need more than 640K of RAM"? :) Dan (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Probably true for gamers, and certainly for someone who just wants to browse the web / do office stuff. People just shouldn't say that IDE performs as well as SCSI without some serious clarification. It reminds me of a computer expert friend (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Maybe if you're gaming on a crappy machine. I love these "SCSI vs IDE" talks. I own and use systems with both. The _only_ times I notice the differences are when I'm copying gigantic amounts of data from one drive to another. And I mean (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yes indeed. Also bad for anything both cpu and disk intensive, like compiling or certain graphics stuff. (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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This is a result of the Number One difference between IDE/UDMA and SCSI; IDE 'borrows' number-crunching from the system processor (thus affecting processor load and responsiveness), whereas SCSI has all the number-crunching built into the controller (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Quantum still makes these, and calls them Solid State Disks. They have a bad size/capacity ratio, but phenomenal access times and reads-per-second rates. (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) of In the olden days before processors could address massive amounts of RAM, you could get cards and external peripherals that contained dynamic volatile RAM on a SCSI interface that would behave like very fast disk. It was used for video (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) That would be Shugart (...) Actually it was spelled SASI and pronounced "sassy". It later became a non-company specified standard and was renamed SCSI. (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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