Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!bellcore!tness7!tness1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga floppies (was: Re: Blitter vs. 80386) Message-ID: <2505@sugar.uu.net> Date: 19 Aug 88 11:44:23 GMT References: <8808180059.AA05505@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX Lines: 14 In article <8808180059.AA05505@cory.Berkeley.EDU>, dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes: > Using an IBM-AT 386 @ 16MHz, it still takes up to three seconds to > go through about 200 entries (in the 4 or 5 directories I had in the path) > to find the executable I wanted.... In otherwords, a DISKBOUND operation. You're comparing apples to oranges. MS-DOS shouldn't be your standard for comparison... UNIX should. Why aim for the mud when the stars are within your grasp? -- Peter da Silva `-_-' peter@sugar.uu.net Have you hugged U your wolf today?