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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 14:15:39 MDT
- From: yackd@oregon.et.byu.edu (Don Yacktman)
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- References: <HARDY.92Jul26180640@golem.ps.uci.edu> <1992Jul27.155939.4554@trilithon.mpk.ca.us>
- Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
- Subject: Re: DOS Drive is Slow!!!!!#%$@#&^#@$
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- In article <1992Jul27.155939.4554@trilithon.mpk.ca.us>, henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton) writes:
- >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
-
- Hey! Be fair! I think my Apple ]['s disk is faster than my
- NeXT with DOS disks! I hate to see folks not give my ][ a
- fair shake! :-) Seriously, the performance of the NeXT floppy
- drive is dismal. They should be really embarrassed about that.
- In fact, so embarrassed that it gets _fixed_. Soon.
-
- -Don Yacktman
-