H89 CP/M hard-secored boot diskette

From: ben franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Thu Apr 3 09:46:14 2003

Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

> I always wondered, if it was so easy to change the sector interleave on
> disks to make them load faster, why didn't the original
> programmers/designers optimize the interleave in the first place?

It depends on your disk hardware and the speed of your computer.
1) Computers got faster 2) Disk i/o got dma rather than poiled
i/o.
Received on Thu Apr 03 2003 - 09:46:14 BST