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From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DiskPerf results
Summary: Was that Wren figure on Amiga???
Message-ID: <256@xdos.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 89 03:07:26 GMT
References: <21149@srcsip.UUCP> <7965@killer.Dallas.TX.US> <6720@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Organization: Hunter Systems, Mountain View CA (Silicon Valley)
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In article <6720@cbmvax.UUCP> steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats) writes:
>will still be limited to the Amigas bus speed.  With a 16 bit DMA engine on
>a stock a2000 this will come out to around 3.58Mb/s.  That's the ABSOLUTE
>maximum data throughput you are going to get no matter how fast the drive
>can supply data.  The fastest drive I have found to date is the CDC Wren V
>That baby can sustain 1400K/s direct from the drive.  

Let me get this straight:

Are you saying that the Wren V can sustain 1400K/sec on an *Amiga*
or on some other system?

If you meant on the Amiga, then I'd like to hear more details, because
that's a better number than anything else I've heard.
	Doug
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