Hi all, On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Bart Oldeman wrote:
> > Then I booted Linux, started 1.0.2.? and - on same hardware, same disk, > > using same program and same data set ran it again. right at 20 minutes. > > sure, Linux is good at disk caching ... And it can use a few gigabytes. DOS has trouble with that much. Our three-monthly product price update used to take four hours under DOS. That could be a real bitch, especially at Christmas, because we would usually end up doing it again and again until we'd weeded out most of the little surprises that our suppliers put in there for us. Last Christmas under Linux it took 1 minute 28 seconds. 73, Ged. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
