[rescue] Various machines for sale

[Dave McGuire]

   So, clueless people who had no business making assertions about 
technologies that they know nothing about.

               -Dave

On 1/8/25 14:05, Lionel Peterson via rescue wrote:
> Dave the "technical people" that said things like that were typically MCSE "engineers"... calling them "technical" was a bit of a stretch.
> 
> Actually, I usually heard that line from "software types" when they were trying to relate to/bond with actual system admins that were trying to help them.
> 
> Ken
> 
>> On Jan 8, 2025, at 12:36, Dave McGuire via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 1/8/25 13:27, Mouse via rescue wrote:
>>>> Yeah that was always BS.  People just wouldn't take the five minutes
>>>> required to learn about what termination is and how to apply it.
>>> It actually was remarkably tolerant.  I have discovered
>>> triple-terminated SCSI working just fine.  I think I even once saw a
>>> quadruply-terminated SCSI bus working.
>>
>>   Yes, and that was by design.  I don't mean to say that over-termination is supported by the design, which it is not, but the design is deliberately resilient enough to handle it.
>>
>>>> Doubly hilarious were the retards who loudly asserted that "IDE is
>>>> superior because it doesn't need those annoying terminators".
>>> As much as I sympathize with (and mostly share) your point of view,
>>> actually, from the end user's point of view, that is correct: if the
>>> end user doesn't have to even think about such things, it *is*
>>> superior...for most users.  Most users would rather have simple-to-use
>>> over complex-to-use, even at the price of performance, flexibility, and
>>> complexity under the hood.  Witness USB. :-(
>>
>>   Agreed.  But supposed *technical people* were saying crap like that. I'm not talking about nontechnical end users.
>>
>>>> Because the n00bs who designed the IDE interface didn't understand
>>>> transmission line theory or impedance matching well enough to design
>>>> it into the interface does not mean it is "superior".
>>> They understood it well enough to design an interface that would work
>>> without it.  (I suspect this mostly meant limiting cable lengths and
>>> speeds, but I'm not a transmission-line engineer.)
>>
>>   Everything about the design says that they didn't understand one whit of it, and didn't understand mass storage interfaces in general. Absolutely nothing about it was a good idea.
>>
>>                -Dave
>>
>> --
>> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
>> New Kensington, PA
>>
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA