IDE doesn't suck! (was: Macs and PCs vs workstations

[Allison]

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>Subject: IDE doesn't suck! (was:  Macs and PCs vs workstations
>   From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch-cctalk at 30below.com>
>   Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 10:56:09 -0400
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>Rumor has it that Zane H. Healy may have mentioned these words:
>>At 4:22 PM -0500 8/5/06, Scott Quinn wrote:
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>>>On the Macs: PIDE is horrible for doing more than one thing at once. Period.

Sounds more like a driver problem as in only one task at a time.

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>>Nothing new there, is there any platform where it isn't?
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>The IDE interface for my CoCo *Rocks!!!*
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>=-=
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>Well, you did ask... ;-)
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>Laterz,
>Roger "Merch" Merchberger
>

Generally speaking IDE was as good as the hardware hosting it.  More often 
than not, better.  At it's worst it was as good as WD1003 and a Fast MFM
(quantum D540) Then again, early IDE was exactly that!


Z80/10mhz, enhanced CPM(Zrdos) and IDE... Zoom zoom!


Allison