23 Jun
1997
23 Jun
'97
4:19 a.m.
perhiperals to
the 64 via the serial bus worked NICE, and I can prove
history is repeating itself. Look at the new USB (Universal Serial Bus)
If not slow as hell. The worst part about the commodore 1541 drive is
that it had its own processor, and it was still slow. The bottleneck was
the serial interface. Commodore was lame not to use something faster
than, what was it, 19.2K? In contrast, the Apple Disk ][ could transfer
data at about a rate of 16K per second. Yeah, it was called daisy-chaining.
Yes right.
Early computers invented this "USB" first. :)
Sam
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