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Article #41015Re: What is 4DOS?
From: Richard Brittain
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 19:02
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 19:02
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In article <111700191@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> lmhg0369@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>disconcerting is that the first time I do a 'dir' it takes at least a second or
>two just sitting there before it spits anything out to the screen. Subsequent
>dirs for the same directory occur at a speed I consider reasonable.
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4DOS is loading it's transient part (~60k) the first time you time DIR. On
my 12 MHz AT clone, it takes < 1 sec (definitely never 2 sec) to do this from
RAM disk in extended memory. I'd have thought it would be similar or faster
from expanded memory. It actually seems only a tad slower if I swap from the
hard disc.
Richard Brittain, School of Elect. Eng., Upson Hall
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!think!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!calvin.spp.cornell.edu!richard From: richard@calvin.spp.cornell.edu (Richard Brittain) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: What is 4DOS? Message-ID: <1990Jan8.190235.22048@calvin.spp.cornell.edu> Date: 8 Jan 90 19:02:35 GMT References: <111700191@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: richard@calvin.spp.cornell.edu (Richard Brittain) Organization: Cornell Space Plasma Physics Group Lines: 16