In a message dated 4/19/2002 10:48:08 AM Central Daylight Time,
bpope_at_wordstock.com writes:
> And thusly Doc spake:
> >
> > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, John Allain wrote:
> >
> > > 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!
> >
>
> 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.
>
That was a big bragging point for us OS/2 users.
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