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- From: flex@kuai.se (Anders Karlsson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Reports from CeBit
- Date: 26 Mar 1996 22:25:02
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- In a message of 25 Mar 96 Michael van Elst wrote to :
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- MvE> Yes and no. Yes, the theoretical speed depends on the clock of the CIA
- MvE> chip. The C64 used 985kHz, the Amiga uses 716kHz. No, the speed of the
- MvE> parallel port depends on how fast you handle interrupts if you do not
- MvE> have hardware that buffers data and does all the handshaking. And the
- MvE> Amiga is of course faster than the C64 for handling interrupts.
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- Hmm.. Okidoki.. I've never had an C64 so I haven't read any h/w manual
- for it either..
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- MvE> Simple. SCSI uses a separate driver while IDE is an emulation of an
- MvE> ancient HD controller in the IBM-AT that is supported by the BIOS.
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- Ancient sounds like a good description of PC's... ;)
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- >> IMHO - That s*cks. Why can't the engineers do something new? A new and
- >> better interface.
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- MvE> Because it isn't the decision of the engineers.
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- You're right.. Why can't big companies do something new? A new and better
- interface.
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- Anders Karlsson Dedicated Amiga User since -89.
- flex@kuai.se PGP-key available on request.
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