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Date:      Tue, 16 Jul 1996 12:59:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
To:        thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
Cc:        dennis@etinc.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mitsumi CD-ROM
Message-ID:  <199607161959.MAA06440@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <199607161917.MAA03813@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> from "Jason Thorpe" at Jul 16, 96 12:17:20 pm

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Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> It's clear that I'm going to have to justify my comment... One of the big 
> reasons I think PCs suck is because there's so much hackish hardware for 
> them.  SCSI gear is _not_ that much more expensive, and the benefits of 
> using SCSI are far greater than the (small) additional cost.

	PC are available in a *wide* range of quality--from stuff that
	i would not touch (the headache factor is too great) to 
	machines that outperform sun's new ultra1's handily in integer
	math (which is at least 90% of your life,  even if you crunch
	numbers for a living, the kernel is all integer, file i/o, 
	network, etc....)  talking about a 586-90 here, nothing remarkable

	on doubles the same PC falls midway between a sparc10 and a 
	sparc20  (numbers are available upon request :)

	not only is SCSI just a modest cost delta, but SCSI works.
	IDE is just waiting, wanting, longing to fail ;)

> If we're going to perpetuate the use of a really lame (IMHO) architecture 
> such as the x86, then we might as well try to break the cycle of hanging 
> hackish hardware off of it.

	agreed.  i hate the f***ing 80x86 architecture.  but everytime
	that someone tries to kill it, intel has managed to squeeze 
	it yet again....i dont know what they will do next.   i may not
	like it, but i have to respect what they have managed to do.

	jason, you need to get yourself some high-quality PC hardware.

jmb
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