Bootable Floppy from CD?

From: Richard Erlacher <richard_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Wed May 24 23:55:41 2000

So, does this PCDOS 2000 have any useful characteristics that MSDOS lacks?

Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: John Wilson <wilson_at_dbit.dbit.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 10:52 PM
Subject: Re: Bootable Floppy from CD?


> 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 - 23:55:41 BST