Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!psuvax1!rutgers!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!mailrus!utah-gr!utah-cs!cs.utexas.edu!sm.unisys.com!csun!csuna!acphssrw From: acphssrw@csuna.UUCP (Stephen R. Walton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Amiga floppies (was: Re: Blitter vs. 80386) Message-ID: <1372@csuna.UUCP> Date: 16 Aug 88 20:05:56 GMT References: <1800@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU> <4479@cbmvax.UUCP> Reply-To: acphssrw@csuna.UUCP (Stephen R. Walton) Organization: California State University, Northridge Lines: 17 In article <4479@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes: >in article <1800@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU>, cheung@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU >(Wilson Cheung) says: >> Why is the disk drive so slow? > >Are you still floppy based? The PCs I've used around here (XTs and ATs) have a >pretty miserable disk performance when running similar things. Amen to that. The ONLY thing PC's do faster than the Amiga is directory listings and other wild-card-search related things. And there're lots of ways around that on the Amiga: a "fastdir" program such as Rob Peck's, or a disk cacher which only caches directory blocks (BlitzDisk can do this, takes minimal memory, and it comes "free" with TxEd Plus). In fact, I ran some disk performance benchmarks some time ago, and the Amiga's _floppies_ were competitive with an XT's _hard disk_ in most respects; they were about equal in reading/writing long files.