Re: The origin of the phrases ATA and IDE [WAS:RE: formatting MFM drives on a IBM PC]

[Jon Elson via cctech]

On 10/02/2017 08:29 AM, allison via cctech wrote:


It was price...  ATA-IDE was cheaper and PC industry was 
working hard to push the price down.
SCSI always remained more costly.

Yes.  I think there were royalties to pay for a true SCSI 
drive. Anyway, there was a VERY significant price
difference between early IDE and SCSI drives.  Several 
hundred $ for a similar capacity drive.

Jon