A more complete log about my disk access errors

[Shaun Oliver]

here's one for u then kirk?
consider this.
intel pentium 4 processor. 1.4 gb running speed.
take a closer look, oh dear! only a 133 mhz front end bus!
but, amd athlon, 1.5 gb processor speed "BUT"! 266 mhz front end bus.
I know which one I'd prefer.


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On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Kirk Wood wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> > ultra dma for some reason is faster than dma.
> 
> THere is a very good reason for this. It is that DMA was never
> marketed. Drives in PIO mode can use DMA transfer. But when the
> improvements for this were made, it was first marketed as "Ultra
> DMA." Something about making it sound bigger and better appeals to the
> marketing gurus. Perhaps it has something to do with most consumer's
> gulibility. Perhaps it is because they have seen computers with faster
> clock speeds out sell computers that do things faster.
> 
> Don't fall sucker to marketing. Consider that the Intel line has much
> higher speeds then does the Alpha processor. And yet, which gets more
> done? Same story happens when comparing the Apple hardware to Intel. You
> don't need as fast a processor for similar speed. And now the same crap is
> happening in macroslop pocket pc. Just friday I had some moron from compaq
> point out the higher clock speeds and more memory of the pocket pc in
> reference to the palms. Then I asked if they worked faster. "Well, no but
> still...."
> 
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