Hallo Herr Bret Johnson via Freedos-devel, am Freitag, 28. Februar 2025 um 00:52 schrieben Sie:
>> FreeDOS is much more stable then MS-DOS due ot: >> 1) Eric Auer did a nice job flushing files to disk which lowered considerably >> power failure problems >> 2) It is much better then MS-DOS for compatibility with modern machines, >> specialy >> big disks and memory >> >> So I vote for implementing whatever is needed in FreeDOS's kernel. This way >> it >> will be more compatible with big disks too > I don't find that to be the case at all, but just like virtualizers and CMSs > and BIOSs, they are not all created equally. I find MS-DOS (particularly > versions 7+) more stable and compatible with things, though FreeDOS may have > an advantage in certain situations. > The one thing MS-DOS does that FreeDOS still doesn't do (and I don't know > that anyone is working on it) is supporting sector sizes other than 512 > bytes. This is very important to me in the development of my USB drivers > since I am able to better support CD, DVD, and BD in their native 2k sector > sizes. That makes me wonder: what is the realistic datarate of a 1,5 MB/sec UHCI connection? Is it really 1,5 MB of transferred data or more like 1/3 of that (0.5MB/sec) as is the case in USB 2.0? Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
