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- From: lga@sandman.stanford.edu(Laurent Amon)
- Subject: Re: DOS Drive is Slow!!!!!#%$@#&^#@$
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.225659.11815@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Reply-To: amon@cs.stanford.edu
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- References: <1992Jul25.195150.4262@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 22:56:59 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?
-
- Well, the DOS filesystem on the NeXT *is* slow. So slow that you
- shouldn't use the workspace to transfer files on DOS disks. You should grab
- the mtools from the net. They are infinitely faster.
-
- I've heard that the problem is fixed in 3.0, although I may be
- dreaming.
-
- Lga.
- ---
- |"I don't know what it's called, but
- Laurent Amon | we're doing one about going to see
- e-mail: amon@cs.stanford.edu | a wizard. Something about following
- lga@sandman.stanford.edu | a yellow sick toad. (Moving Pictures)
-