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Article #17383Re: OS/2 Wishlist - First Edition
From: David Charlap
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 04:58
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 04:58
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Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote: >Why on earth would dual threading xcopy help on a monoprocessor, I find >that xcopy runs essentially at disk speed. I would think the only case >in which it would help is when copying between diskette and hard disk. For me, copying between diskette and hard disk is fairly common. But I don't think the speedup would be significant anyway, since the floppies are so slow anyway. -- David Charlap | Clouds on your shoulder dic5340@hertz.njit.edu | Aren't they grazed by the afterglow -----------------+-----+ How quiet they gather TEAM-OS/2 member | When the storm is about to blow - Duran Duran
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1044c2,54b5a7eb8f6e0e7a X-Google-Attributes: gid1044c2,public X-Google-Thread: 10cd94,54b5a7eb8f6e0e7a X-Google-Attributes: gid10cd94,public X-Google-Thread: 10ca75,54b5a7eb8f6e0e7a X-Google-Attributes: gid10ca75,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-01-11 23:23:26 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!rutgers!njitgw.njit.edu!hertz.njit.edu!dic5340 From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.beta,bit.listserv.os2-l Subject: Re: OS/2 Wishlist - First Edition Message-ID: <1994Jan12.045818.9421@njitgw.njit.edu> Date: 12 Jan 94 04:58:18 GMT References: <2gbrtk$9m6@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <CJ8txH.5Lx@news.Hawaii.Edu> <1994Jan8.155953.21415@uts.uni-c.dk> <2gmhm0$d3m@schonberg.cs.nyu.edu> Sender: news@njit.edu Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey Lines: 14 Nntp-Posting-Host: hertz.njit.edu