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From: tim@amdcad.AMD.COM (Tim Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Reading MacDisks on Amiga
Message-ID: <16641@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: Mon, 11-May-87 11:34:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: amdcad.16641
Posted: Mon May 11 11:34:31 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 13-May-87 04:07:50 EDT
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Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, Ca.
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In article <2112@hoptoad.uucp|  farren@hoptoad.UUCP (Mike Farren) writes:
+-----
| No, it just makes it more brain damaged.  If the extra speed thing is
| true, then they should have been able to get a LOT more data onto the
| disk than the 400/800K that they did.  Twice the rotation speed ==
| twice the data rate, after all.  (Is this how IBM is getting 1.4M
| 3-1/2" drives, by the way?)
+-----
If you doubled rotation speed and kept the data transfer rate constant,
you would get *half* the data storage capacity.  Doubling the rotation
rate allows you to double the data transfer rate for the same amount of
storage.

	-- Tim Olson
	Advanced Micro Devices