From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 8 20:46:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA29387 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 20:46:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obie.softweyr.ml.org ([199.104.124.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA29356 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 20:46:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.ml.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id VAA22280; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 21:53:37 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 21:53:37 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199709090353.VAA22280@obie.softweyr.ml.org> From: Wes Peters To: Greg Lehey CC: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lousy disk perf. under cpu load (was IDE vs SCSI) In-Reply-To: <19970909095701.10527@lemis.com> References: <19970909082656.57842@lemis.com> <19970909095701.10527@lemis.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greg Lehey writes: > > I do not remember. We used it in several Z-80 MP machines we built. > > That was way before 8" drives, before any PC. The machine was an S-100 > > multi-processor. Maybe the fact that we used the first US shipment of > > 64kbit DRAM on that machine will give you a clue. > > Micropolis was experimenting with 8" drives about a year later. > > Sounds like about 1980. Yeah. I remember getting 8K SRAMS for my H-8, and sellcing rows of 16K DRAMs for Apple ][s. 64K DRAMs? This guy was *spoiled*! ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com