Mail Archives: opendos/1997/09/15/08:16:43
-= ArkanoiD =- wrote:
>
> Nope,it was IBM BASICA. The difference is that gwbasic was a line-oriented
> interactive thing - not bad for simple calculations,something like
> programmable calculator. qbasic has some stupid full-screen environment and
> does not run simple scripts by one <enter> as gwbasic did.
Ah, I remember it. It didn't run on a lot of the clones, though, for
some reason so I didn't use it. For a while I used Microsoft's old
CP/M BASIC under a Z80 emulator <g>...
> No one will do something more complex with basic anyways.
Some people still do, but it's not really BASIC any more. No line numbers,
no LET statement, all this structured stuff - why not just use C++?
> I remember there are some.. btw Hyperdisk (not exactly PD,it is shareware)
> is lightning fast being compared with NWCACHE (and with smartdrive too..)
>
> btw NWCACHE slows down terribly on fragmented disks.
Not a good sign, I feel...
> ..actually i don't care anymore - i have 4mb hardware chache on my IDE
> subsystem and i'm going to add 4 more for scsi..
I haven't bothered with SCSI. Why pay twice as much for no noticable
improvement over EIDE?
> > never had any problems with delayed write and SMARTDRV, except that in old
> > versions it used to disable interrupts for far too long and clobbe comms.
> > Of course there's the problem if you switch off or reboot the machine, but
> > that's the problem with delayed write cache in general not with SMARTDRV
> > in particular.
>
> I've seen people who had problems with it all the time. I'm not sure it
> does even handle 3-finger salute correctly.
It does, at least the 6.22 version.
But if I want to be certain then I tell it to flush anyway, I don't trust any
cache to cope properly with resets.
Chris
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