Re: FDHD Blues

[hochstrasse@urz.unibas.ch]

In article <1993Apr19.114258.17902@actrix.gen.nz>, dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:
> In article <jmk3.735177247@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> jmk3@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Jay Krell) writes:
>>
>> People don't seem to understand this. This is the beauty of
>> GS/OS. Almost everything is device and file system
>> independent. DOS 3.3 and maybe Pascal are exceptions,
>> but the idea is that any file system can exist on any media.
> 
> Correct.  The DOS 3.3 FST is hard coded to only support the 5.25" drive
> (it calls the APPLEDISK5.25 driver to all all disk I/O).  For some
[...]
BTW, Does anyone know, why the DOS 3.3 FST is so painfully SLOOOOOOW?
I mean, the directory and sector allocation structure seems to be rather
straightforward. (I even wrote once a quick-and-dirty DOS 3.3 driver for
the UniDisk 3.5. It was quite fast..., and then came UniDOS...)


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