[Coco] [Color Computer] Hard Drive sizes

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 13 May 2004 13:10, Allen Huffman wrote:
>Q: On CoCo, how fast is CF compared to a real HD? CF still faster
> than CoCo? Megaread speed?
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>Q2: I note "faster" CF - like 2x, etc. Does it matter on a CoCo?

With modern hardware, not too much.  A good hard drive, ramdisk or cf 
should be able to do a meg  in 9-13 seconds on a 6309'd coco, 
somewhat longer on a 6809, and is primarily limited by how fast the 
cpu can copy data from point a to point b, and thats so much slower 
than todays hardware can do that the coco is 99% of the slowdown from 
say 40megs/second that the primary drive on this machine can do 
useing DMA, which is not available on the coco.

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