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Article #131Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: David Salvador Flores
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 01:26
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 01:26
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In article <hamilton-2207951620010001@dialup-74.austin.io.com>, Jim Hamilton <hamilton@io.com> wrote: >In article <3umnbj$ege@kaiwan.kaiwan.com>, timdx@kaiwan.com (Jeff >Dallacqua) wrote: > [deletia] > >For the record, as they say... > >The way Mac 800K disks get 800K in the same space as DOS 720K disks is by >*slowing down* the drive when reading tracks on the outer edge of the >disk, since there is more linear distance within the same angle on a track >with a bigger diameter. Clever. The drive can also spin at a uniform No!!! They do it by *speeding up* the drive when reading tracks on the inner portions of the disk! Get it right! Big_Dave :-)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU!dsf3g From: dsf3g@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (David Salvador Flores) Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: faraday.clas.virginia.edu Message-ID: <DCLyoM.HzI@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia References: <3td01s$ivf@news.iastate.edu> <3uiv8m$mc3@ixnews7.ix.netcom.com> <3umnbj$ege@kaiwan.kaiwan.com> <hamilton-2207951620010001@dialup-74.austin.io.com> Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 01:26:46 GMT