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From: dillon@PAVEPAWS.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
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Subject: Re: AmigaDos...  commodore 1541 ?? come on!
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Date: Sat, 10-May-86 18:06:43 EDT
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	Please, let's hear no more talk on that particular drive, it gives
me a headache.  In any case, the 1541 doesn't have multiple directories.
In fact, the 1541 uses the same file format as the 2031, and 4040 (older
drives).  However, the techonological leap in the design of the 1541 is,
well.... backwards.  The 1541 is 3+ times slower than its predecessors.

	But then again, the 5 Mbyte IEEE hard disk  for the Pet, C64, etc...
only has one directory also.

	Let me say then, that it's a huge relief working with the Amiga,
and although it has problems (EVERYTHING ever made has problems except my
toothbrush), it's several order's of magnitude better than anything else
on the micro-computer market except, possibly, the IBM.

					-Matt

* The commodore 4040 disk drive was more powerful in itself than the 
computers it was connected to, and still managed to be slower than
just about everything else on the market.