Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE Performance -- Small Caches DO Work O.K.!

2011-08-24 Thread Santiago Almenara
Welcome back! Sent from my iPhone On 23/08/2011, at 23:50, Jack gykazequ...@earthlink.net wrote: For years, I have told people to use as much cache as possible with UIDE, to handle today's large files and still leave space in the cache for DOS directories. Today, Tuesday 23-Aug-2011, I

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE Performance -- Small Caches DO Work O.K.!

2011-08-24 Thread JPT
Hi, I cannot resist... in the following read my comments on caching and buffering. Even Windows XP (did not try nore recent versions yet) suffers from bad buffering when copying files from and to the same harddrive. It takes 10x to 100x time compared to copying from one drive to another one. I

[Freedos-user] UIDE Performance -- Small Caches DO Work O.K.!

2011-08-23 Thread Jack
For years, I have told people to use as much cache as possible with UIDE, to handle today's large files and still leave space in the cache for DOS directories. Today, Tuesday 23-Aug-2011, I ran experiments using a driver equal to UIDE-S, with a new 10-MB cache size of 1280 8K-byte data blocks.