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From: izot@f171.n221.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Zmodem on commodores?
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Date: 15 Feb 89 14:36:22 GMT
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 > From: elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green)
 > Message-ID: <7125@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
 
 > BTW, the 1541 does have one serious advantage over more "modern"
 > hardware. I've never seen a copy program for, say, a 1581 or SFD-1001
 > that'd copy at anywhere near the data rate of the fastest 1541 copiers
 > (around 40 seconds for 160K? Thats, hmm, 4Kbytes/second). The old 8050
 > I have hooked to the BBS might manage that, but I've never used its
 > builtin diskcopy command, so I really don't know (when I do backups, I
 > use the internal filecopy command, to un-fragment the disk -- and that
 > takes FOREVER).
 
   Ugh! (either way)
 
   The 8050 will diskcopy half a meg in six minutes. Much of that time (1:40) 
is spent formatting the disk. An acquaintance of mine is running a BBS on two 
SFD's, and I once promised him a fast backup program. I haven't got the 
equipment here to do it with so it hasn't gotten beyond the coding stages but, 
if and when I get it done, it ought to be fairly impressive (keeping in mind 
that it will not execute any custom code in the SFD's).
 
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