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From: perry@well.UUCP (Perry S. Kivolowitz)
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Subject: Re: Hard disk through parallel port
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Date: Fri, 19-Dec-86 14:38:30 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 19 14:38:30 1986
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In article <8612180630.AA23659@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>>vs. non DMA disks is currently limited by AmigaDOS, which can only chug 
>>through about 35K/Sec. So, a disk on the parallel port, if designed correctly,
>>will get you at least close to that limit and a DMA disk cannot surpass
>>that limit (at least not the ones that currently exist). Of course, if
>>you're not using AmigaDOS, that's another story...
>
>	Actually, if you take RAM: timing as the theoretical maximum, it's
>more around 150-200K/Sec.
>
>					-Matt

Wrong Wrong Wrong Matt. RAM: does  not give an accurate indication of true
AmigaDOS filesystem throughput because the RAM: is a handler not a device.
Thus it implements  it  OWN file system. RAM: is much faster than AmigaDOS
would otherwise let it.