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From:	"White Dragon" <white DOT dragon AT tin DOT it>
To:	"Opendos AT Delorie DOT Com" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	udma-100 and some thoughts about dos
Date:	Fri, 23 Feb 2001 12:40:29 +0100
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I have a 20gb ata66 drive which is supposed to reach peaks of 66 mb. Well,
actually my WD 7200rpm doesn't exceed 25mb/sec in writing/reading. And an
IBM 7200 rpm reachs 30mb/sec. Isn't it a waste of money? I mean ata66 and
100. The fastest drive i've ever seen is the Barracuda 180 from Seagate.
Full size height (i think it has at least 10 plates), 180 gb of space ( i
wonder how many bad clusters has... probably much more than half my actual
HD!) and a transfer rate of
49-50mb/sec (mmm... still under those da*ned 66mb/sec). BTW uses scsi160 and
costs more than 2000 us$. It is useless to build faster controllers if
internal mechs can't keep the pace. Obviously IMHO...

Well, sadly i must agree that dos cannot strike and win against windows.
I have some experience in Dos and windows teachings. My "pupils" had
serious difficulties with "those awful script commands". Infact they
couldn't
remember the correct syntax of each command. When they started using Windoz,
they just fooled around with that mouse cursor trying to make a program
start.
So i asked why they keept trying under windoz while they surrended after two
seconds under dos. Well, they said that clicking is not that difficult
as writing text commands...
I belive that even linux without xwindows can beat Microcrap. Future will be
lamer friendly...

Where do you wanna crash today? (Said before that orrible Brian Eno jingle
<g>)

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