Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk drunkenly mumbled...
> 
> Old style IDE sucked big time, but don't let this old image stick
> in your mind while looking at new stuff.  New ATA100 (particularly
> IBM 75GXPs) are giving SCSI people the shits.  You ain't gonna tax
> a decent ATA100 disk over two 100Mbit connections anyway.

i, personally, am against IDE.  it has been pretty well outline here as to
why.  i won't add to it.

> > b) 256K eCache.
> 
> That sounds like marketing speak.  Mr Pointy Haired Boss thinks
>    "wooh 'e' this and 'i' that - we must buy it".

poppycock.  eCache is nothing more than Sun's name for L2 cache.  Sun has been
making CPUs with eCache longer than intel has been making CPUs.  so pointy
hair should buy something marked L2 since that is the "newer" name.

> Damn I'm beginning to hate computers.  I shouldn't have failed
> chemistry at school :P

then get out of my damn business and stop making my life so hard.  just kidding.

*gigantic psycho-BOFH been doing to too fscking long grin*

-brian