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From: fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ASDG's track record.
Message-ID: <23@fishpond.UUCP>
Date: 2 Apr 88 07:21:02 GMT
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Reply-To: fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish)
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In article <5861@swan.ulowell.edu> page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes:
>Perry's been often quoted as saying the SDP will get you transfer rates
>of 400,000 bytes/sec.  Steve Beats at CBM gets >600K/s with the A2090
>and a 100M Conner SCSI disk and the FastFileSystem, and said he thinks
>he can do better.  I wonder if the need for an SDP has dried up?

Ah, but Perry was committed to providing 400Kb/sec with the *SLOW*
file system.  If the same fast/slow ratio applies (say 600/60 for the
sake of argument) that would imply that SDP might get 4000Kb/sec, which
does seem a little high  :-)

-Fred

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