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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CRETIN MANOR MAIL
Message-ID: <10180@cup.portal.com>
Date: 19 Oct 88 06:25:38 GMT
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(To: Steve Beats)

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the "unofficial" figures of your disk performance tests.

I also posted earlier today the (preliminary) results (finally documented)
by Brick Ecksten of Ronin re: DMA vs. non-DMA controller tests.

Let's just say that I'm happily astonished!  :-)

Seriously!

It's clear now that here's an area in which the Amiga STILL excels (re: disk
and file system performance) and I believe these facts should be publicized
wide and far.  It *IS* news!

Life is full of surprises, and this is one instance (in FAVOR of the Amiga)
in which I'm GLAD to have been proven wrong.

I suppose you had to see the original posting (to one of my BBS systems) to
understand why I was incredulous.  The posting was made off-handedly in a
manner sugegsting "my interface is faster than yours. Nyah, nyah, nyah." and
I attempted (by posting the stats from UNIX REVIEW and from DEC) to put the
number ("500K per second" (note: neither BYTES nor BITS was specified)) into
perspective.

Thad

Thad Floryan [thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ...!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad]