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From: exodus@uop.UUCP (Freddy Kreuger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Does the ST have a fast enough I/O system?
Message-ID: <530@uop.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Sep-87 06:29:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: uop.530
Posted: Mon Sep 14 06:29:16 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 25-Sep-87 06:11:39 EDT
Organization: Somewhere perpendicular to reality...
Lines: 12
Keywords: ST, virtual memory, multi-tasking

With the DMA bus at something like 5 m-bits a second, and that being
the fastest I/O port the ST has, is virtual memory on the ST's 
a realistic thought?  Of course, I am considering a different operating
system (MINIX??? && X-Windows!!!), but the hardware will remain the same.
I naturally assumed different hard drives, since the drives in the Atari
Hard drives probably do not have the best seek times...

Any thoughts, comments??

Greg Onufer
University of the Pacific
Stockton, California