Re: Zip and Zing info and availability?

starnet!apple!trantor.harris-atd.com!chuck (Chuck Musciano)

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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 15:23:46 EDT
From: starnet!apple!trantor.harris-atd.com!chuck (Chuck Musciano)
To: zoomer-list-1993@grot.starconn.com
Subject: Re: Zip and Zing info and availability?
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> I'd like to know more about this card.  Is it really special, or is any
> old SunDisk-compatible flash disk just as good?  If it is special, then
> is it still useable outside of the Zoomer environment?  And what's with
> this "early next year" stuff?

     I wonder about this performance enhancement promise.  GEOS is limited
by that 640K barrier; apps must reside below it to be executed.  The only
way I can see the card boosting things is if it can be accessed more quickly
than the internal ROM.  GEOS might copy apps into the card instead of 
reloading them from ROM, which might be a little faster.

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