On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 16:18:31 -0400 Mathieu Frenette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Femme, > > > PM takes a while cause it has an active filesystem to deal with & > > can't work with it loaded very quickly. > > Is that true even if I booted with the PM floppy and directly into PM, > without loading the OS? Or is it that, even with the boot disk, PM is > actually running under DOS, and that therefore the filesystem is also > "active" like you said? > > Just curious... Understanding those fine details sometimes makes quite > a difference! :) > > Mathieu. > > > No...in that case you are just limited by the buffers & very very low memory constraints of DOS... 16bit OS remember? Which means dog fucking slow... like watching an elephant run in molasses. So um..thats pretty much why PM was so slow if you booted to DOS. Femminar!
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
