[Coco] CoCo 4/5 perspectives: close hardware emulation?

[Mark McDougall]

Joel Ewy wrote:

> CF does boot pretty fast, but it isn't as instantaneous as a directly
> addressed flash ROM.  I don't think CF cards support UDMA, for instance,
> so the max transfer rate isn't as high as for hard drives.  

Yes, they do!

> Most importantly in my mind, they're silent, tiny, have no
> moving parts to wear out, and consume much less power than
> electro-mechanical hard drives.

The do wear out though!

Regards,

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