PCem reading drive A

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From: Rob Geraghty
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 06:50

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I have just timed PCem on my A420/1 doing a directory of drive a:.
It took 2 minutes 30 seconds!!
Why on *earth* is it so slow?  The emulator is in single task mode
running DOS 5.0 with 456,704 bytes available to DOS (mem).

This makes floppy disks *useless*!!

Rob

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From: robg@citr.uq.oz.au (Rob Geraghty)
Subject: PCem reading drive A
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Summary: why does it take so long?
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