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Article #528Re: DOS Drive is Slow!!!!!#%$@#&^#@$
From: Frank Thomas
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:52
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:52
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In article <1992Jul25.195150.4262@mksol.dseg.ti.com> dahla@mksol.dseg.ti.com (alexander dahl) writes: > Am I just dreaming or what. But to get something off of the > net I must FTP to a PeeCee machine. To get it to mine is > via Floppy Net. > > I cannot imagine that it would be that BIG of a deal to > pass out the "new, faster" DOS driver for the NeXT floppy. > > Did I miss something along the way or did NeXT just decide > that everyone was greatfully enjoyed with a disk drive that > is slower than a Sinclair floppy? > Even worse: If you copy a big file TO the floppy it gets slower every track! The 'TimeMon' reports that the machine has little load, while every application seams to be not very responsive. I thought it looks like this guy is using very much VM but with 'ps' everything looks ok. I have only 8-Meg. BTW: the interleave factor makes a big difference! Formatting a disk on NeXT is much better than one from a PC. I hope this changed in 3.0. (Any 3.0 guy likes to comment on this?) Frank ----- fatal error: no .signature
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!smurf.sub.org!incom!orfeo!hotb.sub.org!glocke!frank From: frank@glocke.hotb.sub.org (Frank Thomas) Subject: Re: DOS Drive is Slow!!!!!#%$@#&^#@$ Message-ID: <1992Jul28.205204.482@glocke.hotb.sub.org> Sender: frank@glocke.hotb.sub.org References: <1992Jul25.195150.4262@mksol.dseg.ti.com> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:52:04 GMT Lines: 25