Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 10:39:24 +0100 (MET) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Chat) Subject: Re: ATAPI (was: Who needs Perl? We do!) Message-ID: <199611230939.KAA04440@freebie.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199611230020.RAA16257@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Nov 22, 96 05:20:04 pm"
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(Moved to -chat) Terry Lambert writes: >>> FWIW: >>> >>> Our company just bought a bunch of Micron machines. They are all SCSI, >>> and they were not special order. >> >> I'm assuming they were part of the "high-end" line at Micron -- I just >> checked their ads and they ship SCSI on the high-end line. THis makes >> sense.. but the point is that anyone buying the best in a PC _should_ know >> the advantages of SCSI, and will probably request SCSI if the machine >> doesn't ship with SCSI by default. Still, most people (I'd best 90% of >> PC's sold today) are shipped with ATAPI CDROMS -- and EIDE hard drives. >> When I was saying ALL, I meant damn near ALL... > > My only point was that this is apparently changing... and basing > a decision on "this is the way it always has been, so this is the > way it will always be" is a bad idea in general, and seems to be > becoming false in this particular case. Assuming the Micron change > from ATAPI to SCSI on their high end represents a trend. Yes, I've seen other indications of this. It might mark a trend towards maturity in the market: even Micosloth users are gradually asking why this expensive "operating system" keeps crashing, and people with multimedia applications probably wonder why programs sometimes hang for half a second before continuing. The German trade magazines (not necessarily reliable) claim that there's a trend towards SCSI, too. Greg
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