[Gllug] re: SCSI vs SATA

[John Hearns]

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 11:51, Andy Farnsworth wrote:
> 
> Therefore, if the distance the signal has to travel is more than 88.235
> mm, the process will take longer than one cycle of the processor. That
> is a little over 3.5 inches and shrinks each and every time the clock
> speed increases.
Can't recall the clock speed on a Cray XMP,
but that is of course why they were built compactly and in a circle.

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