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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ASDG Floppy Accelerator (and other rumors)
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Date: Thu, 21-May-87 04:17:26 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 21 04:17:26 1987
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Keywords: ASDG floppy accelerator speed faster Digi-Paint A2000 availability

In article <6805@amdahl.amdahl.com> (Kim DeVaughn) writes:
>So I ask ... has anyone one the net heard of the "Floppy Accelerator"?  Any
>beta testers who care to comment (if they are permitted to)?  What's up,
>Perry?

We were discussing ways to speed up floppies on BIX and began hypothesizing
about a utility to cache tracks of a floppy in fast ram. It was pretty much
spec'd out how you would do it and Perry complained every time he figured
out a neat hack to make into a product everyone else did too. So I can put
2+2 together and guess that that is what he was talking about. Which brings
up two things of interest...

First the developer community is moving right along up the learning curve,
as they do the Amiga gets better and better. Every time I think I have to
totally whomp on the O/S to do something I find there is a 'nice' way to
do it. Thanks Dale, Carl, Bob, Rob, RJ, Bob, Bob, Sam, Jim, Neil, et al
for a very well thought out hacking path.

Second, I firmly believe that good programmers share a subconcious(sp?)
esp. Whenever one thinks of a good idea everyone seems to pick up on it
until everyone announces the same idea at the same time. It is really
weird.

--Chuck McManis
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