san@cositex.UUCP (Steve Sanderson) (10/05/85)
For those interested in whether the Amigas are being shipped,
a dealer here in Austin called to tell me he now has 150 in
stock.
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Steve Sanderson, COSI Texas
4412 Spicewood Springs, Suite 801 Austin, Texas 78759
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AT&T: (512) 345-2780steve@wlbr.UUCP (Steve Childress) (10/08/85)
Priority One Electronics in the Los Angeles area (see ads in BYTE)
has a floor demo unit. They are taking orders. As of 10/5, the list
of 100% prepaid back-ordered buyers is 22. They estimate 2 weeks delivery.
An associate of mine here is on the list. I think I'll let him do the
trail-blazing!
Especially after hearing the 20-second program load time as compared to
8 or so for floppy-based IBMs and about 2-3 for winnies. This is a real
discouraging thing to hear. Could it be sloppy O/S code and/or inattention
to disk format and interleaving factors? One reason the IBM is so fast is
that the MS-DOS disk drivers support multi-sector read/write calls to
avoid losing a revolution on the disk. How does AmigaDOS compare?
Regards,
Steve Childress
Eaton IMS R&D Group MS 43
31717 La Tienda Drive
Westlake Village, CA 91360
(818) 889-2211 X2148
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