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- 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
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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
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