On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote: > ultra dma for some reason is faster than dma. THere is a very good reason for this. It is that DMA was never marketed. Drives in PIO mode can use DMA transfer. But when the improvements for this were made, it was first marketed as "Ultra DMA." Something about making it sound bigger and better appeals to the marketing gurus. Perhaps it has something to do with most consumer's gulibility. Perhaps it is because they have seen computers with faster clock speeds out sell computers that do things faster. Don't fall sucker to marketing. Consider that the Intel line has much higher speeds then does the Alpha processor. And yet, which gets more done? Same story happens when comparing the Apple hardware to Intel. You don't need as fast a processor for similar speed. And now the same crap is happening in macroslop pocket pc. Just friday I had some moron from compaq point out the higher clock speeds and more memory of the pocket pc in reference to the palms. Then I asked if they worked faster. "Well, no but still...." ======= Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net Nothing is hard if you know the answer or are used to doing it.
