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From: steve@wlbr.UUCP (Steve Childress)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Retail Amigas Available
Message-ID: <372@wlbr.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 12:41:36 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  8 12:41:36 1985
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Organization: Eaton IMS, Westlake Village, CA
Lines: 21
Summary: Availability in L.A. area

Priority One Electronics in the Los Angeles area (see ads in BYTE)
has a floor demo unit. They are taking orders. As of 10/5, the list
of 100% prepaid back-ordered buyers is 22. They estimate 2 weeks delivery.
An associate of mine here is on the list. I think I'll let him do the
trail-blazing!

Especially after hearing the 20-second program load time as compared to
8 or so for floppy-based IBMs and about 2-3 for winnies. This is a real
discouraging thing to hear. Could it be sloppy O/S code and/or inattention
to disk format and interleaving factors? One reason the IBM is so fast is
that the MS-DOS disk drivers support multi-sector read/write calls to
avoid losing a revolution on the disk. How does AmigaDOS compare?

		Regards,
			Steve Childress
			Eaton IMS    R&D Group MS 43 
			31717 La Tienda Drive
			Westlake Village,  CA    91360
			(818) 889-2211 X2148
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