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From: "Patrick Moran" <pmoran22 AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: BASIC & EMS (was: Optimizing CONFIG.SYS...)
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 04:28:06 -0700
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It probably formatted it using BASIC in ROM! (w/1000/ns access time or
slower ROM!)
<BG>

Did it use paper tape and core memory?<BG> (Maybe the floppy was a fake!)
(Sorta like a WINMODEM!!!!)

Pat

----- Original Message -----
From: "Da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT DaSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 11:12 PM
Subject: RE: BASIC & EMS (was: Optimizing CONFIG.SYS...)


> Hmmm ... Well, I can understand an RS-232 based
> disk system being *slow* ... however, the Hitachi
> Peach used a "conventional" floppy disk controller
> set-up. It's just the crappy M$ (Machine & Basic
> hybrid) O/S which made it incredibly slow (well,
> I can't think of any other explanation! ;-).
>
> Joe.



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