Re: HardPressed/AutoArk...

[stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)]

In article <1q81sj$fmg@news.ysu.edu> ag471@yfn.ysu.edu (Eric S. Ford) writes:
>
>As I understand it, the compression utilities on the PC machines improve
>overall speed because the harddrives on those machines are actually read
>more slowly than those on the Apple line.   Thus, the compressed files
>reduce read time required and the faster processors perform their 
>decompression quickly enough to preserve some of the time savings.

	I don't think the PC HD access speeds are slower than Apple HD
access speeds.  I definitely think that compression utlities will
speed up 3.5" disk access (on a pc), because the main bottleneck is
the disk drive access.  With HDs, there may be a performance hit, but
with a fast processor it's very small.

>Eric S. Ford    ag471@yfn.ysu.edu or forde@tecnet1.jcte.jcs.mil 

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