[Coco] megaread

[Darren A]

On 5/22/10, Christopher Hawks wrote:
>
> 	Then I can check the speed of my 360k floppys:
> load megaread
> date -t; megaread 256 </d0@; date -t
>
> May 22, 2010 10:00:31
> May 22, 2010 10:00:55
>
> So that's 24 sec for a quarter meg, 96 seconds for a megabyte read.
>
> Faster than Drivewire???
>
> Geez, now Boisy's gonna think I'm out to get him...
>
> Somebody better check this.
>

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The data transfer speed of DriveWire (115 kbps on a CoCo 3) is less
than half that of a floppy (250 kbps).  When performing a sequential
read without substantial head movement, it is not surprising that a
floppy drive would be faster.

Darren