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Re: Apple II vs Atari 800
Hi,
>>....CBM serial bus which ran at what, 300bps?
>
> That's just plain silly. Even the stock IEC speed was much
>faster than 300bps....
Yep, it is plain silly that CBM chose such a slow speed. But was THAT slow!
If you happen to check the following web page:
http://www.viceteam.org/plain/drive_info.txt You'll see that the 1541
transferred data at a hideously nippy 0.4KB per second....
>....When equipped with JiffyDOS....
Totally irrelevant, the majority of users didn't use such upgrades and were
stuck with "stock" speeds.
TTFN - Pete.