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From: wilker@gauss.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson)
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Subject: Re: 3.5inch HD disk formats: Why not 11*1024
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Date: 12 Feb 91 02:08:21 GMT
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The Heath H89 CP/M 2.203 BIOS supported a 5 x 1024 format
which was quite a bit faster than the 18 x 256 format.
Of course, it used an extra 1k or so to buffer the data
in the bios.