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Article #380Re: DOS Drive is Slow!!!!!#%$@#&^#@$
From: Ulrich Grepel
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 13:21
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 13:21
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In article <2476@tau-ceti.isc-br.com>, jimc@tau-ceti.isc-br.com (Jim Cathey) writes: |> |> 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. I don't think the actual transfer rate reached that high level. The disk was slower than the cassette tape with fasttape or such things. It must have been less than 3000 bits per second, because that was the tape's speed. But there were fastloads and - paralell buses. Uli
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!aida!uli From: uli@aida.intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Ulrich Grepel) Subject: Re: DOS Drive is Slow!!!!!#%$@#&^#@$ Message-ID: <1992Aug04.132107.12505@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de> Sender: uli@aida (Ulrich Grepel) Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 13:21:07 GMT References: <!u@byu.edu> <1992Jul28.050403.6348@trilithon.mpk.ca.us> <2476@tau-ceti.isc-br.com> Nntp-Posting-Host: aida.intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de Organization: TH Darmstadt Lines: 13