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- From: jimc@tau-ceti.isc-br.com (Jim Cathey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: DOS Drive is Slow!!!!!#%$@#&^#@$
- Message-ID: <2476@tau-ceti.isc-br.com>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 00:33:11 GMT
- References: <!u@byu.edu> <1992Jul28.050403.6348@trilithon.mpk.ca.us>
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- In article <1992Jul28.050403.6348@trilithon.mpk.ca.us> henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton) writes:
- >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.
-
- Untrue. Apple never used a serial interface to the disk, except insofar
- as almost _all_ disks are serial devices at some level (there's usually
- only 1 magnetic gap in the head). _Commodore_ had the bozo 9600 baud
- serial interface to their C64 disk drives.
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