Early Macintosh Development: The Floppy Disk Bottleneck Challenge
We always thought of the Macintosh as a fast computer, since its 68000 microprocessor was effectively 10 times faster than an Apple II, but our Achilles heel was the floppy disk. We had limited RAM…
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