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From: robertl@killer.UUCP (Robert Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Hyperspace?
Message-ID: <1246@killer.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 23:25:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: killer.1246
Posted: Wed Jul 29 23:25:40 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Aug-87 21:58:49 EDT
Organization: The Unix(tm) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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Keywords: Q-1, Hyperspace

I was talking to a friend the other day, and he said he worked for a 
Company called Q-1 which had made a disk controler which would calculate
the distance that it had to jump to get to the track it needed to get to
(make sence so far?) and then would put the head into hyperspace to jump to 
that track.  It usually came within 1 or 2 tracks of where it wanted to
be, so it just had to jump a track or 2.  It was programed to expect errors
on the way there though....2 questions:

      1)  Is something like this still around?  This combined with RLL 
          would make a very good combination!

      2)  How did they get the head to go faster?

              Robert Lord