Hi, TOPBENCH looks cool, I will definitely try it. I used Norton SI and Landmark when I was a teenager, I can remember them. Cool that someone kept them somewhere. I will download them as well just for the fun.
mTCP is exactly the software that I use on my PC. It works great. In order to save the two precious ISA ports for other usage, I have a Xircom PE3-10BT on the parallel port, which I don't use anyway. This device is really great and rocks! I also built a small CGA-to-HDMI external converter so I can use a nice Dell monitor instead of the old CRT. Not very genuine I guess, but the CRT of this machine is so toxic for the eyes and ears that I don't regret it. And the picture is actually much better with my converter and the LCD. The ODIN distro is available but http://fd-odin.dosius.com <http://fd-odin.dosius.com/> supposedly the primary site, is down. Are you Brutman ? I love this guy's work. As for FreeDOS, well, the shell was really slow. My original idea was to get rid of Microsoft and get more features thanks to FreeDOS, but it was really too slow. I remember contributing about a bug in debug (was using some forgotten 386 instructions somewhere in the code) and that the people on the list mentioned that the poor performance might be related to some extenders loaded by default with FreeDOS but not necessarily useful on a PC. I also contributed a few keymaps for Aitor. I must admit I did not investigate further. Due to lack of time, not lack of interest. Note that I tested this in 2006. I've just found the mails in my archives :-) Wow almost 10 years ago ! Since you all know the evolution of FreeDOS better than me, do you think it would be worth trying it again ? These days, I'm repairing a Western Digital Filecard 30 for a friend of mine. It was totally out of order when I received it, the motors would not even start up. Now it's fine, I'm going to extract the data then low-format it and reinstall DOS. While fixing it, I discovered that the Filecard 30 is physically the same as the Filecard 20, but they changed the coding from MFM to RLL to get the 50% boost in capacity. Funny. I would have expected a totally different drive (with one more disk inside or something like that), because the 30 was really much more expensive than the 20. By the way, do you know where I could find X-Tree (file management software) and the original diagnostic tools that were provided with these devices ? Cheers Le 24.05.2015 22:49, Rugxulo a écrit : > Hi, > > On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Edouard Forler <edou...@forler.ch> wrote: >> I myself own a true 4.77 MHz 8088 PC that I use from time to time. > Good! :-) > >> When Freedos 1.0 went out, I tested it quickly and found >> out that it was almost two times slower than MS-DOS 3.21 (which is the >> official OS of my machine). > Well, first I would ask whether it is the shell ("dir", "copy", etc.) > or just DOS calls in general. I'm honestly not sure of any (reliable) > benchmarks, e.g. disk or cpu or whatnot. > > Oh, I guess you could try TOPBENCH (or something else more naive like > "runtime zip -9r blahblah \blah"): > > https://dosbenchmark.wordpress.com/downloads/ > >> (yes, my machine has an ethernet connection !). > Have you tried mTCP? > >> I hadn't noticed about this ODIN distro and I will give it a try. >> However, the main website seems to be down, > >From the link I gave?? It works, I just tested it (again). > >> so I'm not sure this is still maintained ? Is it worth testing it ? > Still maintained? Not really. But it's better than nothing. If you > have any specific needed pieces, some of us here can probably help get > you up to speed (to a lesser degree). But no, there's nobody > officially working on it full-time. I don't want you getting your > hopes up too high. :-( > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud > Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications > Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights > Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
