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From: bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (Robert Montante)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: NEC V20 How to USE?
Message-ID: <1584@iuvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Oct-86 00:35:14 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  3 00:35:14 1986
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Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (Robert Montante)
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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In article <208@csustan.UUCP> guest@csustan.UUCP (Chris Rhodes) writes:
>In article <1091@kontron.UUCP> cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>>
>>DISKCOPY and FORMAT both require that the processor run at 4.77 MHz.
>>(Timing dependencies involving the disk controller.)  The FAST88 kit
>>I have gives you a switch to go back to 4.77 MHz for this exact reason.
>>
>>Clayton E. Cramer
>
>Gee, my pclone, which supposedly runs at 8mhz (norton says 1.6 relative
>speed, haven't done the math yet) runs diskcopy and format perfectly
>fine....in fact, all my utilities (and all my software for that matter)
>[...]

A likely reason for one FORMAT to fail is that it was written too specifically
for a 4.77MHz machine.  Programs such as FORMAT are customized somewhat for
different machines that get MS-DOS.  My MS-DOS, for example, is for an 8MHz
Zenith; and FORMAT among others displays a version banner that specifies it
is by and for Zenith machines.