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[q]I meant practical in real world use. [..] I doubt that something as fast, efficient and usable as that was could have been achieved with the painfully slow 1541.
...but you surely meant original 1541 floppy - without any of available "floppy-speeders". I suppose, that with e.g. JiffyDOS installed (there were even faster ones: Prologic DOS, TurboTrans...) probably it could beat that BBC Acorn floppy.
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By "usable" I didn't mean technically possible, I meant practical in real world use.
I remember a BBC DTP app where only the part of the document on screen was stored in memory, and the rest moved to and from virtual memory in real time as it was scrolled through. I doubt that something as fast, efficient and usable as that was could have been achieved with the painfully slow 1541.
Edited 2011-07-19 15:14 UTC