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A small note here. Quantum is the only drive maker which makes the new
Ultra-ATA-2 type drives. As far as I know, no other driver maker makes them
yet. Ultra ATA-2 makes the IDE type drives twice as fast. Instead of a
burst rate of 16 MB/s they have 33 MB/s. They are backward compatible with
the IDE standard, so you can still use them on motherboards which don't make
the Ultra interface for it. Motherboards are just coming out with the Ultra
ATA-2 interface. The new standard to buy a drive will be Ultra ATA-2. Ultra
ATA-2 is almost as fast as SCSI Ultra-wide 3 and costs half as much.
Also, Cyrix just came out with their 6x86MMX. It is as fast as the Pentium
II at the same speed. IBM will be producing them in volume in December. I
use a Cyrix 6x86 P150 because it's so cheap. AMD K6 also came out 3 months
ago. Intel is going to have tough times. An ordinary PC doesn't need more
than a P300 so the writing is on the wall.
Daniel Martinez
In a message dated 97-07-11 06:52:14 EDT, you write:
<< Quantum ( QNTM ) has been trading sideways for the last 4 months.
It has moved above its short term downtrend channel.
Quantum manufactures disk storage devices for personal computers and
servers.
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