[rescue] Why is everyone so OSX happy?

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Fri Apr 11 19:04:03 CDT 2003


On Friday, April 11, 2003, at 07:54 PM, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
>>>>   Bullshit.  If that were true, my G4/400 with SCSI wouldn't 
>>>> outperform
>>>> a G4/800 with IDE.
>>>
>>> Depends on what you're doing with it.
>>
>> I bet ssh is blindingly faster on SCSI. Netscape too. :)
>
> I rather suspect that Netscape is helped by a SCSI bus.

   Netscape is helped *tremendously* by a SCSI disk subsystem.  I run it 
with disk caching disabled on IDE systems, the performance gets so bad.

       -Dave

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