Hello Tony!
Monday March 30 1998 17:43, Tony Pater wrote to LEE ARONER:
 >> On 16 Mar 98 04:56pm, Lynn Nash wrote to Jonathan De Boyne
 >> Pollard:
 LN>> Adaptec must have seen a trend developing. Unfortunately I
 LN>> must inform you and probably others that haven't found out
 LN>> yet that Adaptec just cut a deal to purchase Symbios. For
 LN>> the PC world, that makes it as close as you can get to
 LN>> "Adaptec" equals "SCSI" for inexpensive cards. Everyone
 LN>> will be using an Adaptec controlled chip set.  The high
 LN>> priced models of DPT, AMI etc. will still be there, I
 LN>> guess, but for the average person it is a forgone
 LN>> conclusion..
 TP >  Looking at the DPT www site and their cache options for their
 TP > SCSI cards, I have to wonder if the 'de facto' standard of
 TP > Adaptec is because scsi users/oem's/etc don't know of
 TP > alternatives.
 TP >  Perhaps what is needed is an impartial evaluation of the
 TP > strengths and weaknesses of the various badged products (OS/2
 TP > friendly) ..... I've not seen one.
that sounds like a good idea, only one small problem, where are we going to
find an impartial judge ??
regards
Jonathan
... i do what i can, with what i have, are you able to say the same ?
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