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From: nick@qtnet.uucp (Nick Lawes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Minix for the Amiga ???
Message-ID: <1989Jul24.120703.15722@qtnet.uucp>
Date: 24 Jul 89 12:07:03 GMT
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In-reply-to: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP's message of 17 Jul 89 19:39:16 GMT

In article <7336@cbmvax.UUCP> jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes:

	   From what Dr. Tanenbaum's students told me, their disk routines
   (from a cat /bin/* >/dev/null) are almost as fast as the ST (floppies spin
   SO slowly).

But surely /bin is on the RAM disk, so that makes the routines rather
slow :-) Besides the ST disk drives spin at the same speed as all other
disk drives, there's nothing special about them. The slow speed is due
to the poor implementation of the BIOS. (It doesn't buffer the FATs
properly). TOS 1.4 fixes this.

A friend of mine has an Amiga... Now THERE's a strange disk system...
no real directories etc... YUCK. (No flames please, I remember the wars
of a few years back... :-) Nice hardware, shame about the firmware...

-- Nick

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