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From: ksb@homxa.UUCP (K.BANDES)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att
Subject: Hard Drive Slows Memory?
Message-ID: <1166@homxa.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 09:51:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 12 09:51:00 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 14-Feb-86 01:12:22 EST
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Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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Someone named Brad writes

> I found out today that if you add a third party hard drive to a 
> 6300 (on the 8-bit bus) the cpu slowes down to the speed of an IBM PC
> while access that memory.  

What exactly does this mean?  How could a hard drive (or anything else)
slow down the cpu?  Should I worry?  (I have a 6300 with a third-party
hard drive.) 

Ken Bandes
AT&T IS

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