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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!robg
- From: robg@citr.uq.oz.au (Rob Geraghty)
- Subject: PCem reading drive A
- Message-ID: <robg.715416620@citr.uq.oz.au>
- Summary: why does it take so long?
- Keywords: PCem
- Sender: news@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au (USENET News System)
- Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 06:50:20 GMT
- Lines: 14
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- I have just timed PCem on my A420/1 doing a directory of drive a:.
- It took 2 minutes 30 seconds!!
- Why on *earth* is it so slow? The emulator is in single task mode
- running DOS 5.0 with 456,704 bytes available to DOS (mem).
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- This makes floppy disks *useless*!!
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- Rob
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