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- From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
- Subject: Re: MSDOS 5.0 vs DRDOS 6.0
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <1992Nov16.064011.28416@ericsson.se> <Nov16.204339.15821@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <duck.722123908@nuustak>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:40:47 GMT
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- duck@nuustak.csir.co.za (Paul Ducklin) writes:
-
- [Lots of stuff deleted.]
-
- >A few hassles I've had with DR's offering have
- >annoyed me: "slow" floppy drives [why, BTW?]
-
- As I understand it - DR-DOS reads lots of information from the disk on the
- first disk access. This is supposed to speed up later accesses.
- However, when you switch disks alot it ends up slowing you down.
-
- So its a trade off - Faster speed if you access the same disk lots of
- times. Slower access if you only access a disk a few times.
-
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- Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
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- Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
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