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- From: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton)
- Subject: Re: DOS Drive is Slow!!!!!#%$@#&^#@$
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.155939.4554@trilithon.mpk.ca.us>
- Sender: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us
- Organization: Trilithon Software
- References: <HARDY.92Jul26180640@golem.ps.uci.edu>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:59:39 GMT
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- In article <HARDY.92Jul26180640@golem.ps.uci.edu> hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu
- (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes:
- * If it is any consolation to you: copying a 1.2 MB file to a DOS
- * formatted 1.44 MB diskette on a SONY MIPS portable took about as long
- * as copying from the DOS disk to the NeXT filesystem.
-
- Sun SparcStations are just as slow reading DOS floppies. I timed
- it out once -- the effective transfer rate is less than 2000 bytes
- per second. I had postulated they had used a serial (RS232) interface
- to the disk, just like the ancient Apple II drives.
-
- ........ Henry
-