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From: lachac@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Gerard Lachac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: controlling the Amiga drive
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Date: Fri, 19-Dec-86 18:42:47 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 19 18:42:47 1986
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In article <1374@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> tim@tomcat.caltech.edu (Tim Kay) writes:

>Secondly, is 800K --> 1200K all that significant?  Also consider that
>RLL often slows disk access down?

	Well, my math tells me that 800/2 = 400
				    800 + 400 = 1200
	That's a gain of 1/2 a floppy.  Pretty significant if you consider
that this enables you to fit lots of things on one disk. Like Kickstart
and Workbench :-)

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