Raymond Check discusses MS DOS Floppy Disk Cache

ben bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
Tue Sep 24 14:53:54 CDT 2019


On 9/24/2019 1:40 PM, Christian Liendo via cctalk wrote:
> I meant to say Raymond Chen and it didn't notice the spell check change
> 
> Sometimes modern technology sucks.
> 
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 3:18 PM Christian Liendo <cliendo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> How did MS-DOS decide that two seconds was the amount of time to keep
>> the floppy disk cache valid?
>>
>> https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190924-00/?p=102915
> 
Well I am guessing, the time the flopppy motor was kept on after
a block read/write. Ben.





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