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- From: dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn)
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- Subject: Re: What I want from new Workbench
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 00:38:14 GMT
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- On 19 Mar 1996 13:44:16 GMT, porter_woodward@internet.kronos.com
- (Porter Woodward) wrote:
-
-
- >>On a PC, the dir listings and updates are so much faster it isn't even
- >>funny. One has to wonder what the Amiga's doing that takes it so long
- >>with a few dozen (hundred is even slower) listings in a directory...
- >
- > Well, one answer would be this - the DIR command on a PC is usually made from a "text
- >only" screen, i.e. DOS. The update of a text only screen is very fast. On the Amiga screen system,
-
- I speak of Explorer directory loads and moves - in a GUI.
-
- >all screens are graphical in nature, resulting in a somewhat slower screen display of the directory
- >listing. I ask you how fast is the PC when it retrieves a directory under the FileManager in Win3.x or
- >under the Explorer under Win95? Compare this speed to the speed of something like Dopus or
- >DiskMaster... I think you'll find the speeds are quite well matched - and this from my experience of
- >using a P5 @ 100Mhz and an o30 @ 28Mhz.
-
- I'm comparing both native GUI shells - and the Amiga's is horribly
- slow.
-
- >boxes on the Amiga are graphical in nature - now that's a fair comparison. Oh yeah - and shut off
- >most of your buffers for the drive access. Oops, forgot, very tough to do that under Windows. Most
- >Amigas only have a 4 or 5k buffer per drive/partition. If I use HyperCache, and devote a couple
- >100K of buffer space - whoah Nelly!
-
- Huh? Try it on an Amiga - in WB, open a dir with 3000 files. Take a
- nap while it waits....and waits...and waits to display the files. The
- disk has nothing to do with it - try it sometime on an A3000 or A4000.
- The disk spins for a second, and then the WB locks while it
- thinks...and thinks...and thinks.
-
- > So, before comparing a text interface to a graphical one, think a bit. Also, can you really
- >read the directory when it whizzes by that quickly?
-
- :) Try Explorer vs. Amiga WB with 3000 (or just 500) files in a directory.
-