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- From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Apple II RWTS codes.
- Message-ID: <13ou03sS6eDk00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 18:49:44 GMT
- References: <9V5wPB1w164w@jwt.UUCP> <1992Aug25.073024.13293@ausom.oz.au> <1992Aug26.112324.6256@iscsvax.uni.edu>
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- In article <1992Aug26.112324.6256@iscsvax.uni.edu> fisher2557@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
- > It's GREAT
- >for slide shows! As fast as you can say "click-click" (and I DO mean AS FAST
- >AS YOU CAN SAY IT) it's loaded a hi-res image.
-
- Apple II Pascal was this fast (single-pass reads). Since the filesystem
- only used consecutive blocks for files, it was *very* fast. My brother did
- a slide show using Pascal once and it blew us away...
-
- ProDOS could be this fast, except (1) there's too much other overhead, and
- (2) going to a 1:1 interleave would screw writes in a big way.
-
- > It's really fun to have Central Point interested in
- >seeing your code! ;-) Pity they didn't want to pay for it, or they'd have a
- >copier that'd copy ANYHING. period.
-
- Wrong. I'd be pretty impressed if you could tell the difference between 9-bit
- and 10-bit sync bytes. Just figuring out that they're there is difficult
- enough. You might be able to do it in two passes, but that's not the
- algorithm you're describing.
-
- I won't begin to go into nibble counting, track synchronization, quarter
- tracking, physical damage, etc, etc, etc.
-
- > Nathan (this tag line is umop ap!sdn)
- > FISHER2557@ISCSVAX.UNI.EDU "do I know WHO?..."
-
- --
- fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- [ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]
-