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- Command: BUFFERS Type: internal
-
- Purpose: Allow you to set the number of disk buffers that DOS allocates in
- memory at the same time when the system is initialized.
-
- Syntax: buffers=x
- where:
- x is the number of disk buffers from 2 to 255
-
- defaults:
- for a base system 2
- any disk over 360k bytes 3
- 128k - 255k bytes ram 5
- 256k - 511k bytes ram 10
- 512k bytes or more 15
-
- Comments: A disk buffer is a block of memory that DOS uses to hold data when
- reading or writing.