Jason writes:
>MPE, unlike unix and DOS/Windows, transfers HUGE
>amounts of disc space around.  Single transfers of 168K or so are not uncommon
                                                    ^^^^
 
That's a suspiciously round number... I saw a 169K transfer once :-).
Seriously, where does the number come from?
 
>in MPE-land.  Few discs (except those with the HP seal of approval) will work
>reliably under this kind of stress.
 
A quibble: Many discs without the HP seal of approval are used in AV work,
where transfers of tens of megabytes are not uncommon. The current crop of
discs reconfigure their buffering and calibration dynamically depending on
the pattern of transfers, so this applies to general-purpose as well as
specialized AV discs.
 
-- Bruce
 
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