Re: Commodore "Most Wanted" List

From: silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 16:38:13 +0200
Message-Id: <92F25A71-09D5-4354-A29F-AB82D7A350D8@wfmh.org.pl>
On 2012-05-02, at 11:08, didier derny wrote:

>>> it may be a problem of speed, on a standard floppy 3 1/2 floppy as far
>>> as I can remember, we have 13 or 14 microseconds
>>> to transfer the data. with a HD it's probably faster and probably why a
>>> dma is needed.
>> 
>> As far as I remember, in Amiga HD drives they simply slowed down disk rotation by half, so that the data arrives at the same speed. Similar technique could be used here.
> 
> Lol, it's not really serious :)  I would prefer to buy an IBM PC than a commodore with a floppy disk at half speed...

Why? The users got double the capacity of a DD at the same speed. And it was 1.76 rather than 1.44. I think it wasn't that bad, except that of course HD drives didn't make it to mainstream Amigas, which was a real PITA. I remember people paying stupid prices at my place just to actually be able to read those msdos formatted 1.44 floppies into an Amiga..

> but I must admit that commodore already did something similar with the speed of IEC  bus due to bugs in components...

Right. That's what's called working things around.

> BTW: i consider the PC as the worst machine ever made...

And you are not alone. And for a reason too ;-)
-- 
SD!


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