Re: fast multi-sector floppy I/O with interrupts

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From: braner
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1987 18:09

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DBASIC (which has pretty impressive disk I/O performance in its DOS,
which completely ignores TOS) uses 1K sectors, five per track.
To enable booting, it uses normal TOS sectors on the first track.
So, it can be done!

- Moshe Braner

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From: braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner)
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Subject: Re: fast multi-sector floppy I/O with interrupts
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Date: Tue, 21-Jul-87 14:09:36 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 21 14:09:36 1987
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Summary: DBASIC mixes 512- and 1024-byte sectors

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