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Article #6597Re: MSDOS 5.0 vs DRDOS 6.0
From: Robert Wiegand
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:40
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:40
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duck@nuustak.csir.co.za (Paul Ducklin) writes: [Lots of stuff deleted.] >A few hassles I've had with DR's offering have >annoyed me: "slow" floppy drives [why, BTW?] As I understand it - DR-DOS reads lots of information from the disk on the first disk access. This is supposed to speed up later accesses. However, when you switch disks alot it ends up slowing you down. So its a trade off - Faster speed if you access the same disk lots of times. Slower access if you only access a disk a few times. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc. motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net uunet!motcid!wiegand Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ftpbox!mothost!white!rtsg.mot.com!lido16!wiegand From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand) Subject: Re: MSDOS 5.0 vs DRDOS 6.0 Message-ID: <wiegand.722270447@lido16> Sender: news@rtsg.mot.com Nntp-Posting-Host: lido16 Reply-To: motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group References: <1992Nov16.064011.28416@ericsson.se> <Nov16.204339.15821@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <duck.722123908@nuustak> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:40:47 GMT Lines: 19