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Re: Apple disk drive...
- Subject: Re: Apple disk drive...
- From: "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 17:51:54 -0400
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- References: <8uVsa.41493$3h5.660259@news2.east.cox.net> <b918us$k52$1@freenet9.carleton.ca>
- Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.sys.apple2:30143
> The IBM and the Apple (plus plenty of other computers) have
> the disk controller connected via a parallel connection, so
> they tend to be faster.
Actually, IBM and Apple drive are still read/write on single lines,
but they are on dedicated ports, whereas Commodore and Atari
are on multi-I/O lines, which get interrupted by other transferring
ports running thru the same physical connection. ;-)
Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises
http://garberstreet.netfirms.com
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