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Article #2467Re: AmigaDos directory knowledge
From: Darren New
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1989 20:24
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1989 20:24
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In article <5615@cps3xx.UUCP> porkka@frith.UUCP (Joe Porkka) writes: >In article <3459@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.UUCP (Dan Barrett) writes: >> I don't really understand all the concern about the speed of >>directory listings and wildcards, at least for hard drives. I have a slow >Try doing a "dir df0:c" with your workbench disk in the >floppy drive.... >Now do you understand??? > Joe Porkka porkka@frith.egr.msu.edu Something else I don't understand: The disk should be able to read about 5 tracks/second if you look only at the revolutions. Yet when doing something like DiskCopy, the disk takes more than one second/track to read or write. What's the slowdown? Is the blitter and system overhead really four times the read speed? -- Darren
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!new From: new@udel.edu (Darren New) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: AmigaDos directory knowledge Message-ID: <5141@nigel.udel.EDU> Date: 1 Dec 89 20:24:47 GMT References: <88.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> <8742@cbmvax.UUCP> <ANDREWT.89Nov29154933@watsnew.waterloo.edu> <3459@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <5615@cps3xx.UUCP> Sender: usenet@udel.EDU Reply-To: new@udel.edu (Darren New) Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 15