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From: blgardne@javelin.es.com (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.154523.8758@javelin.es.com>
Date: 5 Mar 91 15:45:23 GMT
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Follow-up To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy

bkuo@girtab.usc.edu (Benjamin Kuo) writes:

Hi Ben!

>I agree with several of the posters in previous messages--LIMIT THIS THREAD!

Once again, I'm directing followups to comp.sys.amiga.advocacy, and I
suggest everyone else do the same.

> We're even bickering about hard drive speeds,
>which are VERY SUBJECTIVE to the HD manufacturer, NOT THE COMPUTER.  My
>hard drive has an access of 19ms, but when I hook up another, slower
>40ms access time drive, of course it slows--but does that make the same machine
>slower? Not a chance.

My point about hard drive speeds is that the DMA interfaces commonly
available (and shipping as standard equipment on most A2000's and all
A3000's) are far faster than the non-DMA interface on the Macs. Unless
it's a dog-slow (Seacrate) drive, ANY drive will run faster on the Amiga
than it will on the Mac.

As I've mentioned in another message, a 1.2 gigabyte Fujutsu produced
peak read speeds of 1.9 megabytes/second on the A3000, about 500
kilobytes/sec on an IBM 386, and a feeble 300 kilobytes/sec on a Mac II.
This was the same drive tested on all three systems. And in tests on a
dozen other drives, the same kind of results were obtained. There are
some very slow drives out there, but the Mac won't let the really fast
ones fly.
-- 
Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland  580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108
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