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From: a186@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CrossDOS and multitasking Works!/ClockDJ
Message-ID: <576@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 9 Oct 89 23:30:17 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In Msg-ID: <210@grape3.UUCP>, king@cell.mot.COM ie. Steven King writes:
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| Two questions this time around:
|
| 1) I've seen everyone here raving about CrossDOS, and it *does*
|    seem like the greatest thing since sliced bread.  Now, for the
|    64,000 Dollar Question: Will it read/write the 1.44 Mbyte 3.5"
|    format my friend so loves to use on his MS-DOS box?  If so, is
|    CrossDOS fast enough that I can use the 1.44M MS-DOS format for
|    my own devious purposes on the Amiga?
|
  No, but you can't blame CrossDos for that; you can't use 1.44 Meg drives
in AmigaDOS format either. The thing is the 1.44M drive has a 500 Kb/sec
read/write speed which the hardware simply doesn't support. [360K/720K
drives use 250KB/sec.]
  Now, if CBM were to redesign the custom chips and increase the clock
frequency, it could be done. Do you think Gould will spend the money
to switch over to CMOS & 28MHz?
  <-Harvey

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