Re: TI-H: General questions with a possibly big im

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Subject: Re: TI-H: General questions with a possibly big im
From: tsaimelv@pilot.msu.edu (Mel Tsai)
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 05:35:15 GMT
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>In real life situations, a 486 DX 33 can't do over 75k a second.  This is
>with the IDE card from another computer that can easily 300k.  Same HD,
>same card, just a POS computer.  :(

Grant, I bet you my life that if you designed a system with a 486DX33,
you would get FAR over 75k/sec from a typical EIDE drive.  I'm not
talking about the el-cheapo 8-bit IDE controller cards on an el-cheapo
1992 486-motherboard.

And where the hell are you getting this 75k/sec thing anyways?  My old
compuadd 486DX33 desktop can EASILY handle a large file (e.g. > 100mb)
transfer from my 4x CDROM to the hard drive.  Hrm, more math:  150k x
4 = 600kbytes/sec.  But I guess that isn't real-life, eh :)?

>>Just look at the SpecInt's if you're still confused.
>
>I know how much a spec sheet says a computer *can* transfer.  The question
>is realy how much can it transfer when windows uses 13 calls just go get
>the data...

Grant, oh 3r33t compUt0r hax0r, I said *SpecInt*, not spec sheet.  Go
look up what SpecInt means :).

-Mel

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