Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 08:37:49 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@headcandy.com>, dunn@harborcom.net, "'hackers@FreeBSD.org'" <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mitsumi CD-ROM Message-ID: <199607161537.IAA01488@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Tue, 16 Jul 1996 07:55:17 -0700 "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> wrote: > Personally, yes, I wouldn't touch an IDE CDROM with a stick (though > some of the new 8x drives are kinda tempting) though I still wouldn't Why? 8x on a IDE CD-ROM is 8x a "standard" (cough) IDE CD-ROM, which in my experience, is roughly equivalent to a 4x SCSI CD-ROM :-) (Maybe one day, probably far into the future, after we're all dead and gone, consumers will realize just how much PC hardware blows, and stop buying things like ... well, PCs :-) -- save the ancient forests - http://www.bayarea.net/~thorpej/forest/ -- Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939
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