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From: richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel)
Subject: Re: IDE vs SCSI
In-Reply-To: marka@hcx1.ssd.csd.harris.com's message of 16 Apr 1993 07:30:17 -0400
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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1993 22:15:22 GMT

In article <1qm5c9$6on@hcx1.ssd.csd.harris.com> marka@hcx1.ssd.csd.harris.com (Mark Ashley) writes:

>   First off, with all these huge software packages and files that
>   they produce, IDE may no longer be sufficient for me (510 Mb limit).

I've seen a listing of a Seagate 1G IDE hard drive.

>   Second, (rumor is) Microsoft recognizes the the importance of SCSI
>   and will support it soon. I'm just not sure if it's on DOS, Win, or NT.

Windows NT already supports SCSI, a variety of adapters, for disk,
tape, and CD-ROM.  So does OS/2 2.0.
-- 
Richard Krehbiel                                 richk@grebyn.com
OS/2 2.0 will do for me until AmigaDOS for the 386 comes along...
