Apple ]['s and C=64 video/ Bad Feelings...

From: jpero_at_mail.cgo.wave.ca <(jpero_at_mail.cgo.wave.ca)>
Date: Mon Jun 23 11:19:53 1997

 
> > perhiperals to the 64 via the serial bus worked NICE, and I can prove
> > history is repeating itself. Look at the new USB (Universal Serial Bus)
>
> If not slow as hell. The worst part about the commodore 1541 drive is
> that it had its own processor, and it was still slow. The bottleneck was
> the serial interface. Commodore was lame not to use something faster
> than, what was it, 19.2K? In contrast, the Apple Disk ][ could transfer
> data at about a rate of 16K per second.
Not really, The main problem is that C= drive is commanded to read
one track then inner then back out then again and again. Find a
software to reorder those tracks on that disk to make it read one by
one in series fashion. Then it's faster.

> Yeah, it was called daisy-chaining.
Yes right. Early computers invented this "USB" first. :)

>
>
> Sam
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>
Jason D.
Received on Mon Jun 23 1997 - 11:19:53 BST