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From: haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Filesystem speed on PC's (was: Re: ISDN)
Summary: DOS Filesystem and Interrupt Latency
Message-ID: <237@pigs.UUCP>
Date: 15 Aug 88 18:39:55 GMT
References: <18.23040D6B@rubbs1.FIDONET.ORG> <6108@bigtex.uucp>
Reply-To: haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie)
Organization: Big "D" Oil and Gas
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In article <6108@bigtex.uucp> james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen) writes:
>                         , not that the Mess-DOS file system is
>currently good for sustained 8K/sec anyway.

the trouble with the DOS file system is not the result of the file system
structure.  it is the result of DOS itself.  Messy-DOS is written like
shit.  the file system structure would be able to handle the volume if
the operating system were written properly.  a similiarly toy-like file
system, which was implemented correctly, is the DEC RT-11 file system.
it is several times faster than unix and runs on a 64K machine.
-- 
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