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Tomas By wrote:

>> > `Intel Atom N270'
>> Not the fastest, but should be fast enough for a DOS program.
> 
> Hmm, yes, only around a thousand times faster than a 8086?

Maybe, but I remember the N270 being very slow with Windows (7?).

>> Please install [uhdd] and try again.
> 
> Yes, that helped. Now it takes a minute or two.

Nice speedup, but would be still to slow for me for just starting a
"text editor". (Yes, I know, Emacs is more an operating or eco system.)

> So Freedos has nothing like that? There does not seem to be any SMARTDRIVE.*

UHDD *is* "part" of FreeDOS.

You could also try our old
<https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/lbacache.html>.

-- 
Robert Riebisch