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- From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:18:09 GMT
- Subject: Re: Multitasking (was Re: Msdos 5.0 Vs Drdos 6.0)
- Message-ID: <26790032@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- References: <1992Dec14.155140.11352@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- mikew@hpwarha.wal.hp.com (Michael Williams) writes:
-
- > Well, I know exactly what he means! I've been using DR-DOS 6.0 at home
- > for over a year, and I have yet to hear a satisfactory explanation from
- > DRI/Novel about why floppy disk access is so slow. The MS-DOS system at
- > work is MUCH faster, as is my home system when I boot it under MS-DOS.
-
- I find that hard to believe, because this is actually a DR DOS
- *feature* (in the positive sense of the word), but if you say so ...
-
- Anyway, here is why:
-
- From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:39:13 GMT
- Subject: Re: Re: Re: MSDOS 5.0 vs DRDOS 6.0
- Message-ID: <26790027@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
- Path: hpuamsa!franks
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- References: <duck.722123908@nuustak>
-
- duck@nuustak.csir.co.za (Paul Ducklin) writes:
-
- > IMHO, there are 2 ways to go with DOS right now -- either DR-DOS 6.0
- > or MS-DOS 3.30. A few hassles I've had with DR's offering have
- > annoyed me: "slow" floppy drives [why, BTW?]; ...
- [deleted]
- > Interestingly, most of the cool
- > utils from DR-6.0 work fine under MS-3.30 [eg: SUPERPCK, ...
-
- Only the *first* access (after insertion) to a floppy is slow because
- DR DOS 6.0 reads in the whole FAT for later faster access. This is
- documented in one of the information files on Novell's BBS and FTP
- system (no pointers handy, but can try to find them).
- [deleted]
-