In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/03/2007
at 01:16 PM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>"speed matching" attempted to retrofit 3880/3380 to 168 and 303x
>machines with channel running at 1.5mbyte max
Not quite; the 370/168 had two type of block multiplexor channel,
single byte and 2 byte. The 2 byte channel ran at 3 MB/s. The 3880
only supported the single byte channel, which was less expensive.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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