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Ultimate DOS kernel file copy speed test (Miscellaneous)

posted by rr , Berlin, Germany, 31.07.2007, 09:20

> clusters. The machine is a Celeron PIII-1.2GHz, ATA-66 HDD, 512 MB of RAM,
> with Jack's drivers loaded. The times in seconds (rounded to an integer

What versions? What options?

> MS-DOS: 17

MS-DOS 7.x? (for FAT32)

> PC-DOS: 17

No surprise here. ;-)

> EDR-DOS: 33

Still room for improvements.

> FreeDOS: 80

Ouch! :-(

> ROM-DOS: test failed resulting in hang-up and lost clusters.

Does ROM-DOS support FAT32 natively?

> (As to the alleged future in FreeDOS: No, it's past. All DOS is past.
> Let's face it. The only past that is future too is Unix. Eternal like the
> Egypt pyramids... Still alive and evolving in Mac OS X, Solaris, the BSD
> family, Linux and so on.)

OK, then "Good bye!" to you. I don't want you to live in the past.

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Ultimate DOS kernel file copy speed test - lucho, 30.07.2007, 17:38 (Miscellaneous)
- Ultimate DOS kernel file copy speed test - rr, 31.07.2007, 09:20
  - Ultimate DOS kernel file copy speed test - lucho, 31.07.2007, 17:14
    - Ultimate DOS kernel file copy speed test - rr, 31.07.2007, 17:34
    - Ultimate DOS kernel file copy speed test - sol, 30.11.2007, 17:51
      - Speed differences negligible - Japheth, 03.12.2007, 12:25
        Speed differences - be more specific - Rugxulo, 05.12.2007, 22:31
        Speed differences - be more specific - Japheth, 05.12.2007, 23:02
        Speed differences - be more specific - sol, 05.12.2007, 23:05
        Speed differences - be more specific - tom, 06.12.2007, 13:01
        Speed differences - be more specific - sol, 06.12.2007, 17:50
        Speed differences - be more specific - tom, 06.12.2007, 17:59
        Speed differences - be more specific - sol, 06.12.2007, 18:32
        Speed differences - be more specific - sol, 06.12.2007, 18:35
        Speed differences - be more specific - tom, 06.12.2007, 18:49
        Speed differences - be more specific - sol, 06.12.2007, 18:55
        Speed differences - be more specific - tom, 06.12.2007, 19:08
        Speed differences - be more specific - sol, 06.12.2007, 21:30
        Speed differences - be more specific - rr, 07.12.2007, 09:43
        Speed differences - be more specific - tom, 07.12.2007, 11:11
        Speed differences - be more specific - sol, 07.12.2007, 17:09
        Speed differences - be more specific - tom, 07.12.2007, 20:22
        Speed differences - be more specific - sol, 07.12.2007, 20:51
        Speed differences - be more specific - Japheth, 07.12.2007, 21:27
        Speed differences - be more specific - sol, 07.12.2007, 22:40
        Speed differences - be more specific - Japheth, 07.12.2007, 23:20
        Speed differences - be more specific - sol, 08.12.2007, 01:00
        Speed differences negligible - sol, 06.12.2007, 01:14
- Ultimate DOS kernel file copy speed test - Rugxulo, 31.07.2007, 10:12
  - Who said that DOS was dead? - lucho, 31.07.2007, 19:07
    - Who said that DOS was dead? - Steve, 31.07.2007, 19:50
    - Who said that DOS was dead? - rr, 31.07.2007, 20:17
      - Who said that DOS was dead? - lucho, 01.08.2007, 14:55
    - Who said that DOS was dead? - Rugxulo, 01.08.2007, 04:13
  - Ultimate DOS kernel file copy speed test LINUX LINUX ... ... - DOS386, 02.08.2007, 15:28
    - Ultimate DOS kernel file copy speed test LINUX LINUX ... ... - Rugxulo, 03.08.2007, 05:09
- Ultimate DOS kernel file copy speed test || Slowest FreeDOS - DOS386, 02.08.2007, 15:26