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Article #286Re: DOS Drive is Slow!!!!!#%$@#&^#@$
From: Jim Cathey
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:33
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:33
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In article <1992Jul28.050403.6348@trilithon.mpk.ca.us> henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton) writes: >Gosh -- I didn't mean to impugn the Apple ][. What I meant was that >Apple used a serial interface to the floppy drives way back in the >dawn of time, and somehow managed to get as good -- you say even >better -- performance than ``modern'' super high-speed-ten-VAX- >equivalents-on-your-desk-workstations. Untrue. Apple never used a serial interface to the disk, except insofar as almost _all_ disks are serial devices at some level (there's usually only 1 magnetic gap in the head). _Commodore_ had the bozo 9600 baud serial interface to their C64 disk drives. -- +----------------+ ! II CCCCCC ! Jim Cathey ! II SSSSCC ! ISC-Bunker Ramo ! II CC ! TAF-C8; Spokane, WA 99220 ! IISSSS CC ! UUCP: uunet!isc-br!jimc (jimc@isc-br.isc-br.com) ! II CCCCCC ! (509) 927-5757 +----------------+ "PC's --- the junk bonds of the computer industry"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!olivea!isc-br!tau-ceti!jimc From: jimc@tau-ceti.isc-br.com (Jim Cathey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DOS Drive is Slow!!!!!#%$@#&^#@$ Message-ID: <2476@tau-ceti.isc-br.com> Date: 29 Jul 92 00:33:11 GMT References: <!u@byu.edu> <1992Jul28.050403.6348@trilithon.mpk.ca.us> Organization: ISC - Bunker Ramo, Spokane, WA Lines: 21