Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 21:53:37 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lousy disk perf. under cpu load (was IDE vs SCSI) Message-ID: <199709090353.VAA22280@obie.softweyr.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <19970909095701.10527@lemis.com> References: <19970909082656.57842@lemis.com> <XFMail.970908165203.Shimon@i-Connect.Net> <19970909095701.10527@lemis.com>
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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*! ;^)
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