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- From: 01mbmccabe@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: floptical advice please!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.132011.14027@bsu-ucs>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 18:20:11 GMT
- References: <11804@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <C19HMp.JIs@gabriel.keele.ac.uk>
- Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's
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- > The fact that they are slower than floppies is all that is putting me
- > off - I don't have an existing hard drive, and I don't think a floptical
- > would be up to the job of running gcc/mint/tcsh/latex and whatever at a
- > reasonable speed. I do like the idea of keeping related bunches of
- > programs all on one disk though - just pop in the disk corresponding to
- > what you're going to do tht session.
-
- I'm not sure if the above is a typo, but Flopticals are several times faster
- than a regualr floppy drive. If the above _is_ a typo, then yes, Flopticals
- are slower than a hard-drive.
-
- -Matt
-