History of IDEATA and Small Form Factor Committee 4461
Philip Homburg might have said:
AT MFM controller = IDE = ATA
Okay...
Okay, but...
Which may be closer to what I meant. In some very important respects they are the same. Tab to tape to drum to disk are not the same, but AT to IDE to ATA are. I'm missing a word here, one that would identify and categorise the similarity or lack thereof. At the risk of bending an old saw I'll say one is a series of revolutionary changes and the other evolutionary.
the keyboard up out of reach. It isn't so much the keyboard I was so worried about. Even the good ones can only take so much...
re: one of the issues with cycling around real memory for global LRU was that it tended to be naturally...
Admittedly I don't know why I'd want to, but I could take an old fifty megabyte Compaq 1(Seagate made them, I think) HDA and plug it into my new(ish) motherboard and it would work.
obAuto analogy: Today's BMW is the same as a model 'T' in the similar respects. I still haven't said quite what I want to, instead talking all the way 'round it, but I hope nonetheless to have made myself more clear.
1 I recall a period of time when so-interfaced drives were known as Compaq drives. Having lost direct recollection I'd suppose this was because Compaq was an early adopter of the technology.
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