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From: billk@crash.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Why are the Amiga's floppies so slow?
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Date: Mon, 23-Feb-87 21:58:26 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 23 21:58:26 1987
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There has already been some discussion about "Why the Amiga's floppies are so
slow" but a friend told me a bit about what the Amiga's drives were supposed
to be capable of doing.

I don't know if this is correct or not.  If it isn't, well... sorry.

He said the Amiga floppy drives rotate the disks at 300 rpm.
"   "    "    "      "     "    can read one (1) track per revolution.

If the above is correct, that means the drive are *capable* of reading
five (5) tracks per second, correct?

That's what... Eleven 512-byte sectors per track?  Five and a half Kbytes? Ok.

That makes it over 25 Kbytes per second, right?

Then (and I understand about the DOS routines and stuff being a bit slow) why
does it take so long to Kickstart?  Wait... Hmmmm... That's ten seconds by my
figures.  Gee.  How long *does* it take to read Kickstart, anyway?

Oh, never mind.

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