Exabyte--SCSI or Q-bus *or* BI-bus

[Dan Packman]

In article <9510 at batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> 
    eric at geology.tn.cornell.edu writes:
>We are contemplating the purchase of an Exabyte 8mm tape drive
>for our system.  There is a choice about whether to connect it
>to our VMS MicroVAX II (Q-bus) or to our DECstation 3100.

In a similar vein, we have an old VAX 8300 with both unibus and
BI bus.  What are the relative performance hits with the uni-bus
version of an 8mm unit versus a unibus version?

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