19 Apr
2002
19 Apr
'02
6:34 a.m.
And thusly Doc spake:
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, John Allain wrote:
It's a Windows things... For some reason they just can't multitask
properly while doing a floppy disk format. Maybe they are still using DOS
type format routines.
With OS/2, you can also do a full format of a floppy and do anything else with
no slowdown.
Cheers,
Bryan
I encoded some family geneology into set of frame
HTML
pages once. It turned out to be something line 600 small html
files, 300 KBytes or so. When I went to put it on a floppy, it
took over 30 Minutes to write!
OK. This is completely off topic, but it has bugged me for years.
You guys are more likely to know, and care, than any other forum I hang
in. I use a Linux PC as my daily workstation, file server, DNS, MOP
server, etc. Given hardware limitations, it's stable enough.
I can start a lowlevel format on a floppy, go and surf the net, read
my email, compile software, or play a game while (45-75 secs) that
happens.
Do that in Win<anyversion> on the same hardware, and I might as well
go make coffee. Same comparison applies to printing large documents.
WHAT is M$ doing that operating a floppy disk drive takes ALL of a
1.4GHz CPU and 512M of memory? I wanna know!