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Re: Disk drive speeds

Subject: Re: Disk drive speeds
From: dfevans@bcr10.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 19:44:43 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.atari.8bit, comp.sys.cbm
Organization: University of Waterloo
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In article <cu6r1a$u2l$1@blue.rahul.net>, Jorge  <user@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>The best case is, of course, nothing (blank screen without DMA). But even 
>then ANTIC steals some cycles for RAM refresh.
>

  Don't you also need at least one entry in the display list?  My Atari
docs are not near me at the moment so I can't recall and I'm not sure
whether extrapolating "backwards" from the Amiga is accurate in this
case.

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