24 May
2000
24 May
'00
11:52 p.m.
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 11:13:24PM -0400, SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com wrote:
I use pcdos 6.3 and 7.0. much better than msdos i
think, and i prefer the
editor. how in the world can one realise 15% performance increase running
disk compression? logic would indicate a degradation since you are running an
extra task to compress the hard drive not to mention less memory space in the
UMBs to load the compression driver high.
I have trouble buying this too, but if the CPU and disk drive speed are
totally out of whack with one another, the disk could be so slow that the
CPU can inflate N KB of data to 2*N KB faster than the disk can read 2*N KB
of uncompressed data.
Anyway IBM is still in the DOS business, and I gotta respect them just
for that! The latest flavor I know of is "PC DOS 2000", nice to see some
recent work being done, even if they re-used the previous documentation
(it's a PC DOS 7 manual with a sticker on the front that says PC DOS 2000).
John Wilson
D Bit