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From: stroyan@hpfcso.HP.COM (Mike Stroyan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Another DOS for AMIGA?
Message-ID: <9010007@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 18 Feb 90 23:14:10 GMT
References: <RFROST.90Feb19022710@spam.ua.oz.au>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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> 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).
> 
> rfrost@cs.ua.oz.au (Richard Frost) /  8:57 am  Feb 18, 1990 /

You should try FACC II from ASDG.  This floppy accelerator program
caches disk blocks, reducing the number of head seeks required.  It can
be configured to favor the blocks that hold directory structures.
Running FACC II is about the equivalent of having a new DOS.

Mike Stroyan, stroyan@hpfcla.hp.com