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- From: bevis@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Bevis)
- Subject: Re: 4000
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.045858.15047@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <1992Sep12.162639.1888@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <65745@cup.portal.com> <1992Sep13.064017.13800@nntp.uoregon.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 04:58:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep13.064017.13800@nntp.uoregon.edu> ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu (Gregg Giles) writes:
- >In article <65745@cup.portal.com> Aurelius@cup.portal.com (Mark Christian Barnes) writes:
- >>
- >> Does this mean that the same old Paula chip is used? That would mean
- >>that floppy disks are still limited to 880k full speed drives. We still
- >>will not be able to read standard HD (1.44M) floppies! ;-{
- >
- > Paula is the same. However, your assumption about the disk drives is not
- >correct - the A4000 has 1.76MB drives, which can read MS-DOS 1.44MB disks.
- >That's why Workbench 3.0 has CrossDOS built in. :-)
- >
-
- Are you sure? In any case, what I've read is that the drive rotation
- speed can be halved to read disks of twice the 880K density. Therefore,
- the implication here is that using "old Paula" logic, disk transfer speed
- will be the same (ie, no faster) than it is now, even though there must
- be higher DMA bandwidth in the new machine. Tsk tsk...
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