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Re: Apple II vs Atari 800

Russg wrote:

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On Apr 26, 2:36 am, "Russg" <> wrote:


.4 kb/s  ?  That's 400 bytes /sec or about 4000 bits/sec?


Yes. As Ensor says it's hideous. It's more like a tape recorder
without the need to spool to the sections to load from.

Without a fast loader you can literally *see* the bytes being
transfered.
*With* a fastloader the thing is quite usable.

bye
Marcus



The Atari stock floppy went about 19200 baud, was
capable to 50K baud with some drives and DOSes.
I never had much luck with the faster situations, got
errors, standard speed was pretty reliable.

What was the Apple ][ rate?


Under ProDOS, after factoring out the drive startup
and file open time (about 0.8 sec), the file transfer
rate in my experiments was about 7.7KBytes/second for
reads.

I haven't done similar experiments for DOS 3.3, but
I would expect it to be a little less than half that.

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