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From: "Alain" <alainm AT pobox DOT com>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: BASIC & EMS (was: Optimizing CONFIG.SYS...)
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:15:23 -0200
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Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

>As a side-note, anyone ever seen/used a Hitachi Peach
>computer (ca. 1980)? This had an O/S from M$, partly in
>machine code, partly in BASIC. Very primitive stuff - and
>EXTREMELY slow! For example, say you wanted to duplicate
>a disk - it took 20 minutes to format it, 20 minutes to copy
>it and, finally, another 20 minutes to verify it!!! No, I'm not
>kidding - that's actually how long it took!!!

Lots of machines took that long to format disks and tapes...
I hope that people remember that before complaining
that their 700MHz machine is taking a few minutes to copy
Gigabytes ;-) ...

Alain