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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: higher density diskettes 
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In article <199509121259.MAA16918@thumper.osix.com.au>,
Peter May <peter@osix.com.au> wrote:
>Just think of the buffer size you would need in the FD driver! At 
>least 26k of memory PER TRACK READ.

Commodore managed it in a machine with only 512K total RAM.

>And what about error detection? 
>Are we going to have the driver do CRC checks on data fields as well? 
>That should speed the performance of this already flaky driver up no 
>end! :-)

Who said it'd be fast? It'd just be a cool way to upstage Microsoft.