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From: mdavis@pro-sol.cts.COM (Morgan Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: vaporware (another example)
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Date: 5 Jan 88 22:14:44 GMT
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> I really want DOS to reside on the drive as well as proloss, so I decided
> on the Sider.
> What's that?  They don't make the 40 meg 28ms seek time SCSI drive yet?

What a laugh.  DOS 3.3 on a hard disk (compared to ProDOS) is a slug.  No
amount of tweaking of milleseconds for access time is going to improve it
very much, if at all.  Furthermore, DOS on a hard disk is practically a joke
in and of itself, due to the fact that you're limited by storage restrictions
imposed by ancient floppy-disk technology.

Give me one or two large ProDOS volumes with a hierarchical filing system over
dozens of fixed-sized, file-count-limited DOS 3.3 volumes any day.

Then again, I'll bet there are those who still think cassette storage
is superior over disk drives.  Gads.