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From: wert@cup.portal.com (robert scott comer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Does 38ms vs 65ms make any difference?
Message-ID: <14893@cup.portal.com>
Date: 21 Feb 89 04:44:39 GMT
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Yea, so what about dead time? What are you going to do with that time
anyway? No matter what system you are using, multiuser or not, that time
is dead time FOR YOU. DMA will only help with the overhead of transferring
the data from the disk to the memory, a small percentage of the time
involved in the transaction.

Get the fast disk, if you can afford it  , because that is the one thing
that will help i/o performance, no matter whether you are connected to
a plus, an SE, a II, or a sun.

scott out