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- From: fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox)
- Subject: Re: Decreased seek times.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.235218.3483@netcom.com>
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- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 23:52:18 GMT
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- sheun@cs.city.ac.uk (Sheun Olatunbosun) writes:
-
- >In either case, I think the problem seems to be that the GCR
- >encoding/decoding is done in the disk drive software and that the drive
- >has limited RAM.
-
- Actually the GCR decoding problem was handled very well on the 1571,
- which has expanded ROM rather than RAM. The extra ROM has GCR decode
- tables which reduce the need for lots of shifts and bit manipulations,
- thus resulting in faster decoding.
-
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