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From: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Christopher Lishka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Guess...
Message-ID: <250@uwslh.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Aug-87 11:12:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: uwslh.250
Posted: Mon Aug 10 11:12:05 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 11-Aug-87 03:58:53 EDT
References: <682@aahus.UUCP> <480@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>
Reply-To: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Christopher Lishka)
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison, State Hygiene Lab
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Keywords: Floppy, Hard Disks
Summary: The slowness may be due to disk drives...


I have a feeling that the Amiga's slowness in Workbench may be due to the
(common) use of floppy disk drives.  I had a chance to play with an Amiga
connected to a Supra Hard Drive and I'll tell you that those icons seemed
to be smoking as they hit the screen :-) .  Doing a 'dir' was magnitudes
faster too.  I am not sure why it takes so long with a floppy...I am also
not sure how other floppy-based icon systems compare in speed (the Apple
Macintosh, for example).  I have seen a 16 mHz Mac II with a hard disk and
it did not pop those icons on the screen any faster than an ~8 mHz Amiga...
pretty sad, I thought, for a machine that cost a hell of a lot more.  Oh
well...

							-Chris

[Sorry about posting this Amiga followup to comp.sys.cbm]
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Chris Lishka                    /lishka@uwslh.uucp
Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene <-lishka%uwslh.uucp@rsch.wisc.edu
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