Re: 32MB is size???

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <iAHXf.51135$2O6.5759@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com>,
Bryan Parkoff <none@nospam.net> wrote:

> Hi, I suggest you to read "Beneath to ProDOS" and "Beneath to DOS 3.3" 
> manual.  DOS 3.3 is designed to read 256 bytes per sector at this time. 
> ProDOS is designed to read 512 bytes per two sectors at this time.  It
> shows that ProDOS is faster than DOS 3.3 for reading and writing because
> double sectors are stored in the RAM.

No, that's not the reason ProDos reads so much faster than DOS 3.3.

One can fairly easily patch DOS 3.3 so it reads about as fast as
ProDos does.  A number of special DOS'es, with these patches, are
known by names like Diversi-Dos, Pronto-Dos, etc --- all of them use
256-byte sectors, both at the sector level as well as at the OS level.

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