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From: 6500stom@hub.UUCP (David Stoms)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: double buffering considered harmful?
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Date: 20 Jan 90 01:56:32 GMT
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> 1)do an asynchronous read from floppy to memory buffer A;
>   In the meantime, the previous read from floppy, which was stored in
>   memory buffer B, gets written to the hard disk. 

As far as I know, none of the disk drives (floppy or HD) support
async reads or writes. Hopefully, Apple has realized this and is
working to correct it.

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