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From: dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Date: Wed,  3 Aug 2011 15:42:28 +0200
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On Wednesday 03 of August 2011 15:16:00 erik quanstrom wrote:
> i think the speed ratio of 2:1 is not correct.
>=20
> first, you must be assuming udma 133.  i have never seen a udma 133 targe=
t.
> =09
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=3DProperty&Subcategory
> =3D14&Description=3D&Type=3D&N=3D100007603&IsNodeId=3D1&srchInDesc=3D&Min=
Price=3D&MaxPric
> e=3D&PropertyCodeValue=3D359%3A7788
>=20
> the fastest udma device i can find is udma 100.  this is not 100mhz, it's
> 100mb/s.  where as 3.0gb sata is 3.0gb/s / 10 bits/byte =3D 300mb/s.
> that's 3x, not 2x.  (both are in decimal, as you can calculate from the
> udma cycle time of 40ns, double-pumped).  and of course sata 6.0gb is
> 6x faster than pata.

thanks for the correction and please excuse my post; it was an early-mornin=
g=20
brain-fart :^)

=2D-=20
dexen deVries

[[[=E2=86=93][=E2=86=92]]]

=46or example, if the first thing in the file is:
   <?kzy irefvba=3D"1.0" rapbqvat=3D"ebg13"?>
an XML parser will recognize that the document is stored in the traditional=
=20
ROT13 encoding.

(( Joe English, http://www.flightlab.com/~joe/sgml/faq-not.txt ))