Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!parc!biosci!agate!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!ub4b!btmplq.god.bel.alcatel.be!rc.bel.alcatel.be!cver From: cver@rc.bel.alcatel.be (Christophe Vermeulen) Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: Which CD-ROM / advantage to SCSI Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 19:19:15 Organization: Alcatel Bell DV9 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <2st9ak$pi1@char.vnet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: btmxah.rc.bel.alcatel.be X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] In article bwilliam@iat.holonet.net (Bill Williams) writes: >From: bwilliam@iat.holonet.net (Bill Williams) >Subject: Re: Which CD-ROM / advantage to SCSI >Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 15:53:41 GMT >Always get SCSI if you can. >SCSI is the future. SCSI allows external devices to be attached to your >computer (DAT, CD-ROM, Optical, Scanners, Media jukeboxes, Hard Disks, etc). That's true : SCSI IS wonderful. But your conclusions are wrong : SCSI needs first one driver for your card. Then a second one to get ASPI compatibility Then a third one for managing Hard disks Then a fourth one for your CD-ROM Must I continue ?? With SCSI, you can simply forget still having 500k or more free for these beautiful, but hungry little games ... >Therefore its SCSI or nothing. In the future, OK, but not today with DOS drivers >Macs have had SCSI for almost 10 years now >and there are countless interesting peripherals Mac users routinely use. >The most common being a peronal external hard disk or two that they carry >around with them to shuttle data between work and home. No problem with Macs : they never had 640k problems. >Bill Christophe.