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From: david@ut-emx.UUCP (David T. Croley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: OS/2 Disk speed.
Message-ID: <20053@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 89 17:57:20 GMT
Reply-To: david@emx.UUCP (David T. Croley)
Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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I have read (Byte October '88) that OS/2 is considerably slower
than DOS (20-50%) for Hard Disk access.  I cannot believe that
this is true and I was wondering if anyone could give me some
better idea of the speed of OS/2 compared to DOS for disk access.

Also, HPFS is supposed to be faster... how much faster and will
it make a difference.  I wish I had a system that I could test
myself, but until then, any help would be appreciated.