Hi,
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote:
>
> Regarding speed, USB 1 means quite slow, far below 2 MB / sec
> even in the best case. For example running Windows 3 from an
> old 256 MB stick is much slower than on an old 40 MB harddisk.
> But indeed, it is still faster than from floppy ;-)
It's probably best to create a RAM drive and copy there any files that
are often needed instead of constantly seeking the slow media (and add
it to %PATH%). Then later just manually write back any modifications
that need saving. (Easy to forget, and I'm not sure of a good
solution. Perhaps get used to issuing a "halt" command that writes
everything for you. "replace /s /u /r" ???)
Similarly it may be worthwhile to disable swapping with CWSDPMI (via
CWSPARAM) or load "hdpmi32 -r" so that it doesn't create
"c:\cwsdpmi.swp" on every DJGPP-compiled program invocation. ("cwsdpmi
-p -s-" is similar but pure DPMI only, i.e. less friendly to other
extenders due to their bad assumptions.)
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