Re: Raymond Check discusses MS DOS Floppy Disk Cache

[ben via cctalk]

On 9/24/2019 1:40 PM, Christian Liendo via cctalk wrote:

I meant to say Raymond Chen and it didn't notice the spell check change

Sometimes modern technology sucks.

On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 3:18 PM Christian Liendo <clie...@gmail.com> wrote:

How did MS-DOS decide that two seconds was the amount of time to keep
the floppy disk cache valid?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190924-00/?p=102915

Well I am guessing, the time the flopppy motor was kept on after
a block read/write. Ben.