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From: eric@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Eric Lavitsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard disk through parallel port
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Date: Thu, 18-Dec-86 11:09:43 EST
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>        Actually, if you take RAM: timing as the theoretical maximum, it's
>more around 150-200K/Sec.
>
>                                        -Matt

Actually, it isn't. Using RAM: speeds is not a good metric for
measuring AmigaDOS throughput. RAM: implements it's own handler -
l:Ram-Handler and does not use a normal AmigaDOS filesystem. A
physical disk device or Recoverable Ram Disk like ASDG's uses a
normal AmigaDOS file handler which provides only 35K/Sec maximum
throughput, and you had better use it on a disk if you want to be
100% compatible... 

Eric


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