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- From: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton)
- Subject: Re: DOS Drive is Slow!!!!!#%$@#&^#@$
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.050403.6348@trilithon.mpk.ca.us>
- Sender: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us
- Organization: Trilithon Software
- References: <!u@byu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 05:04:03 GMT
- Lines: 15
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- In article <!u@byu.edu> writes:
- *
- * 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! :-)
- *
- * -Don Yacktman
-
- Gosh -- I didn't mean to impugn the Apple ][. What I meant was that
- Apple used a serial interface to the floppy drives way back in the
- dawn of time, and somehow managed to get as good -- you say even
- better -- performance than ``modern'' super high-speed-ten-VAX-
- equivalents-on-your-desk-workstations.
-
- ........ Henry
-