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- Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!amdahl!fadden
- From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Apple II RWTS codes.
- Keywords: Apple //e FOREVER
- Message-ID: <fcGR032H69KY00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 23 Aug 92 22:03:44 GMT
- References: <1730i0INNinf@agate.berkeley.edu> <9V5wPB1w164w@jwt.UUCP>
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- In article <9V5wPB1w164w@jwt.UUCP> bbs-aphelps@jwt.UUCP writes:
- >And put together a DOS together in a couple of days. Beside in the book
- >Understanding the Apple IIe that author claims that ProDOS READ_BLOCK is
- >better and faster than RWTS.
-
- Yes, it is. The stuff in DOS 3.3 reads the raw data and then analyzes it,
- while the ProDOS routine analyzes it while it's reading (where analyze ==
- convert from 6+2 encoding to plain data).
-
- >Austin C. Phelps bbs-aphelps@jwt.UUCP
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- fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
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