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From: maniac@arrakis.nevada.edu (ERIC SCHWERTFEGER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Kronos vs. Hardframe
Keywords: Kronos, Hardframe, controller
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Date: 29 Nov 89 20:55:42 GMT
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In article <5166@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> don@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Donald R Lloyd) writes:
>In article <3481@convex.UUCP> swarren@convex.COM (Steve Warren) writes:
>>
>>"C Ltd's KRONOS controllers are the *only* non-DMA controllers utilizing
>                                    ^^^^^^^^^
>>full bus wide 16-bit data transfer.  Using a unique dual-buffered psuedo-
>>DMA design, KRONOS systems transfer data into the Amiga at full Amiga bus
>>speed, in fact, KRONOS systems are so fast that the hard drive itself is
>>now the limiting factor."
>   
>       Supra is making this same claim for their WordSync controller.
>       I bought it at WOC, mainly because it was cheaper than most of the
>others the dealers still had left....

That's funny.  Everyone is ignoring a "little guy" again (just as IBM'ers
and Macists ignore Amiga innovations), and that is the PaloMAX project,
which has had a 16 bit  controller option for over a year.  It had
diskperfs of about 550-600K/sec too.  Naturally, this was done after
I built mine, with an 8 bit controller.  But 295K/sec isn't bad for an 8 bit
non-DMA controller.




Eric J. Schwertfeger, UNLV  maniac@arrakis.nevada.edu