Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au!sirius!rfrost From: rfrost@cs.ua.oz.au (Richard Frost) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Another DOS for AMIGA? Message-ID: Date: 18 Feb 90 15:57:10 GMT Sender: news@ucs.adelaide.edu.au Distribution: comp.sys.amiga Organization: Dept. of Teletraffic Research, Adelaide University Lines: 37 I would like to know if anyone has developed an alternative DOS for the Amiga? I recall a rumour that the Software Distillery had created one. I would like to know about this as I have had my Amiga for over 3 years now and I had just about enough of it! We all know of FFS but it was not the improvement I was looking for! For example, I copied over 200 files from the RAM disk to a FRESHLY FORMATTED floppy disk and it took over 4 minutes! Each file averaged about 1-2 K. Also, the file names were very similar, thus increasing the possibility of hash-collisions in the DOS!! The disk fragmentation was appalling, a directory alone took 2 minutes! What sort of brain damaged DOS is this??? Yes, it may be fast for all those hard disk users out there, but they are a minority! The floppy disk is the storage medium, that most people (ie. like me) are FORCED to use (I admit I have extra memory to remedy this). What I would want for the Amiga is a DOS that is FAST, ie. (Excuse me for saying this..) the IBM disk format which uses a File Allocation Table, which gives FAST directory listings! Although the FAT idea is not so good with hard disks which need VERY large FAT's, the use of them in floppy disks is quite ok. Alternatively Commodore should model a DOS like that used in UNIX which uses I-nodes. One final question, why didn't they put the FILENAME strings in the directory block for the Amiga and not the hash table, which requires yet more disk head seeks to seek the filename string!!! Gee, I feel a lot better now, after getting all that out of my system !!! -- ______________________________________________________________________________ _ ___ | Email Address: rfrost@spam.ua.oz.au I) I_ | I\ ichard I rost | FidoNet (ADAM LINK BBS): 680/805 Richard Frost ---------------------+-------------------------------------------------------- THE AMIGA,the programmers dream machine!! Bewildered Earth Scientist: "How do you re-wire alien equipmnent like that??" Dr. Who: "Its easy when you've had 900 years experience in alien technology." ______________________________________________________________________________