
Originally Posted by
mbbrutman
I don't remember enough about the DOS free space calculation, other than to know that it can be very slow. And the bigger the partition, the worse it gets. I don't know if writing/appending to a file will trigger any DOS related pauses, or how often. But a 15 to 20 second pause is pretty hard to recover from.
It's proportional to the size of the FAT (ie. number of clusters), not the size of the partition. The good news is, it cannot take any longer than 17 seconds on a 5150, and it only gets better from there. The only system where it's really a concern is the PCjr, which can take up to 50 seconds (because both DOS and the interrupt table reside in the slower 128K, adding insult to injury).
Just for giggles, I wrote a script and started repeatedly doing file transfers against ftp.oldskool.org again. (Forgive me Jim!)
Please, by all means. That's why it's there
ftp.oldskool.org isn't bandwidth-capped either.
Offering a bounty for:
- A working Sanyo MBC-775 or Logabax 1600
- Music Construction Set, IBM Music Feature edition (has red sticker on front stating IBM Music Feature)
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