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From: UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga competitiveness
Message-ID: <90272.150041UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 29 Sep 90 19:00:41 GMT
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In article <420@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>, cjeffery@cs.arizona.edu (Clinton
Jeffery) says:

>Example #2: an Amiga's hard disk, even with FFS, is *ridiculously* slow
>        compared to the _identical_ hard disk running DOS or UNIX/386.  This
>        is based on empirical observation doing heavy C compiles on a 2000
>        with 1MB ram and a 40 Meg ST-251-1.  Sorry.  I wish it were untrue.

This isn't true.  Overall throughput of a proper Amiga Hard Disk is quite
good.