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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Syquest performance
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.013932.21020@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Keywords: info wanted - detailed if possible!
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Nov13.131134.13201@bnr.ca> <84006@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 01:39:32 GMT
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- In article <84006@ut-emx.uucp> futeh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Futeh Kao) writes:
- >Why is IBM so inept in writing scsi drivers?
-
- I just thought I'd jump in on the last question. There is no SCSI
- hardware standard on the PC. And SCSI itself, at least before SCSI-2,
- is not really a standard. There are at least a dozen makers of PC
- SCSI adapters, each available in several permutations, and hundreds of
- possible devices which can be attached to these adapters.
-
- The example you provided, however (the NeXT) is a very much more
- tightly controlled system, with the vast majority of hardware from but
- one vendor. And the NeXT never did have to contend with DOS. :-)
-
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