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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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When they first came up with SCSI, the originators of the standard (no, I don't remember who it was) tried to impress upon everyone else that SCSI should be pronounced "sexy"... it was the geeks (snorting derisively at a too- cute acronym, no doubt) (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hunh? Oh wait, you said Apple/Mac groupies, so I get it now. Its scuzzy - deal with it. :) I'm sure Apple/Mac groupies could put their collective efforts into something more useful, like maybe encouraging Apple to come up with cooler new (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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PASCAL is a pretty nice language to learn how to program, that is how I first really learned to program (ignoring BASIC hacking). The game part can be done, About 10 years ago, my term project in a pascal class was to write a Wheel of Fortune game (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Small Computer. It's just a carryover of the hard c (k) sound: skuzzy rather than suzy. I use "scummy" and "scurvy" and the people at work always know I'm refering to SCSI. Nothing like mking a bad choice worse. ;-) Bruce (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) To look at them, most geeks do think scuzzy=sexy. eric (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Because I asked this in lugnet.loc.se, and Ander Isaksson (you know, the man behind BlockCAD) recommended Pascal. Jacob Sparre Andersen also recommended ADA, and I chose Pascal. I haven't started learning yet, so I still can change my choice of (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Depends what you're doing and how much you really care about performance. My friend Paul and I both have Linux systems that get backed up over the network by our Operations group. They're mostly identical systems, but Paul's is all IDE and (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) You're not alone. (URL). My impression is that it _was_ the geeks who came up with 'scuzzy'. It's more amusing than 'sexy'. (Remember all the horrid advertizing surrounding computers with 386SX and 486SX processors? Urg. No need to encourage (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Perhaps you are talking about a SCSI RAM drive ? this is a SCSI DVD RAM Recorder .....I have never heard of SCSI RAM as in SCSI accessed RAM Memory modules.. but I have seen SCSI DVD RAM drives ....They use thier own version of recording media .... (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Actually I never heard a thing like "SCSI RAM", but I'm not familiar with systems other than PCs, so it can be. In case you mean a SCSI subsystem for HDD, CD-ROM and such devices, You may have it easily, although it might be quite expensive (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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