>>> Ok, I tested this on my 386dx33. With MS-DOS 6.22 without a RAM drive >>> but with MS Smartdrv installed (my normal setup) I get a total elapsed >>> time of 21 secs.
>> WOW. Is that the first run, or is it a later run after everything has >> already been saved in cache ? >> Only the first run on clean cache is relevant. This is consistent with several tests I did on several machines. Even my old Toshiba 2200 386SX at 20 MHz managed 28 seconds. This was running on a 4Mb MSDOS 5 Virtual drive where I loaded everything. > First run. But that's with Smartdrv installed. Without Smartdrv it takes > 1 min, 51 secs to run Speedchk and the hard drive sounds like a cheap > coffee grinder. >> It certainly does. Thanks. >> That test time using your HD looks awful fast for a '386. You must >> have a much faster HD than I have in MY '386 cuz mine takes about >> 1 min and 5 or 10 secs for the first run ! As a summary, the setup Clarence put together consistently takes about 60% the time that I could otherwise achieve with DRDOS 6 or MSDOS 5. I should try it with DRDOS 7 and DPMI. Kali > Mine is slower, as you can see. >> For all who wish to set up a ramdisk and run this test with their >> normal OS to compare the OS speeds, get: >> http://caverge.arachne.cz/linked/testuros.zip > I'll give it a go and let you know. So far have you discoverd an > advantage to IBM DOS 3.30? >> - Clarence Verge >> - Back to using Arachne V1.62 .... > Sam Ewalt > Croswell, Michigan, USA > -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ http://www.nimnet.asn.au/~kali/
