7300 disk speed?

Kevin Saunders kevin at lasspvax.UUCP
Sun May 12 03:58:38 AEST 1985


>More specifically, the disk is slow, compared to the speed of everything
>else.  

Can anybody quote specs on the drives?  

>I mean, lets be serious: $7000 for a machine that requires over a minute
>for simultaneous logins on two terminals??? 

Two terminals in addition to the windowing console?  
The machine just dithers, and no wonder.  If this is the ($5000) 512K/10MB 
version, paging overhead will eat the machine alive.  VM and slow disks 
*don't mix well*.

Q: Is the 20MB drive faster?  As fast as the PCAT's (which is acceptable)?

Very Qrious,
Kevin Eric Saunders,
lasspvax.kevin at cornell.arpa

"I'm a fool--but I'm not a *rat* . . ."--The Man with No Number



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