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From: 01659@AECLCR.BITNET (Greg Csullog)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: RE: Re: question about spectre GCR
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Date: 5 May 89 13:02:00 GMT
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>With GCR reading Mac disks directly at 1:1 or faster Mac speed,
>a hard drive will not be a necessity.  The reason a hard drive is often
>mentioned is because Spectre reads the HD so fast that it results
>in speeds that are truely amazing, and causes Spectre to run at
>faster speeds than a stock Mac Plus or SE!

NO! The Mac is unusable as a single drive system unless you load the
system/finder files into RAM disk. With fonts and desk accessories (that
become part of the system file) 1 MByte of system/finder is not uncommon.
Count on at least 350K for a bare bones config. With a Mega 2/4 set up a single
drive config with system/finder in RAM is OK but you can run into trouble on
a 1040ST (forget a 520ST). If you do not put system/finder in RAM, count on
ENDLESS disk swaps. And I MEAN ***ENDLESS* disk swaps!!!!!!!!!!!!