Bootable Floppy from CD?

From: John Wilson <wilson_at_dbit.dbit.com>
Date: Wed May 24 23:52:07 2000

On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 11:13:24PM -0400, SUPRDAVE_at_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
Received on Wed May 24 2000 - 23:52:07 BST