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Greg didn't say what program copied the files.  I _guess_ it's the Gulam
'cp' command.  I don't know how it does it, but apparently not well.
500K in 36 seconds is about 14 Kbytes/sec.  The theoretical max is 22.5
Kbytes/sec (one track per rev).  My boot disks actually achieve that
when copying into the RAMdisk using 'Autodisk' (and the floppy is 'fast'
formatted).  Autodisk copies with a _huge_ buffer (the whole RAMdisk).
"Twister" formatted disks read about 80% as fast, and standard disks
about half as fast (i.e., twice as slow).

But my experiments (when modifying microEmacs, etc) show that, with typical
text files (<50K), a buffer of 9K (one DS track) yields a performance that
is very close to that of larger buffers.  That is with standard
("slow") formatted disks.  (The performance gradually levels off as you
increase the buffer size through 4.5, 9 and 18K.)

- Moshe Braner