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From: jmpiazza@sunybcs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Re: Great big huge floppy disk?
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Date: Wed, 24-Dec-86 11:10:03 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 24 11:10:03 1986
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Reply-To: jmpiazza@gort.UUCP (Joseph M. Piazza)
Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
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Keywords: cause of them diskcopy blues

In article <1164@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>
>...  The blitter is used to decode [data from the read track],
>usually a sector at a time, and it achieves this decoding in one
>blitter pass (though as I recall, it takes three passes to encode the data).

	Which explains why copying disk to RAM: is so much faster than RAM:
to disk.  (I have a single drive system -- could you tell?)

Flip side,

	joe piazza

--- Cogito ergo equus sum.

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