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From: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: TurboDos observations
Message-ID: <207@forty2.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 88 22:14:57 GMT
Reply-To: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Organization: Exp. Physics University Zuerich
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I was able to play around a bit with the GEMDOS 'Ersatz' from Atari France:

First thing I did was run a few tests without TurboDos, one was
run the UniTerm manual thru LaTeX, and the other was
create 50 1.5 kB files on a 5MB HD partition with 120kB free (some-
thing for which GEMDOS is known to be very slow).

After I had run these two simple tests, I installed TurboDos and ran
up against the first problem, it uses at least 100kB of memory (the
program itsself is some 30kB, with other words I had to remove various things
before I was able to run TeX.

What one does notice immediatly, is that the desktop needs a lot less 
disk accesses, this and the fact that TurboDos needs so much memory
could mean that it's 'just' a disk cache program, anyway the times for the
above tests:   
              GEMDOS      TurboDOS
  LaTeX  |  9 min 40 s |  9 min 40 s | Comment: tmp files on Ramdisk
 50 files|  3 min  6 s |  0 min 42 s |

Anybody got more data?


  
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