Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS Beta9 RC5 has been released
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: Bernd Blaauw escribió: right now on updated ODIN bootdisk the CPI files take almost 600KB (10 * 60KB), which is nearly half the disk! (and makes creating 720KB more difficult). Perhaps it's a question to check the CPI files, perhaps for MOST of the countries, just 2 or 3 of those CPI files are not enough, and not 10 of them. It's just a question of where to put the limit. What was the compression proposal about? Help files or CPI files? For the CPI files it would really help since they compress 90%, and if you concatenate them together and then zip them it only takes up 34K instead of 600K. So a single compressed EGA.CPI would be really nice. Bart --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Robotic Monkeys at ThinkGeek For a limited time only, get FREE Ground shipping on all orders of $35 or more. Hurry up and shop folks, this offer expires April 30th! http://www.thinkgeek.com/freeshipping/?cpg297 ___ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS Beta9 RC5 has been released
help-files are already collected in a zipfile, Rob worked on that. I suggested compressing the CPI-files to Eric using Gzip, but that would add Zlib to MODE. Eric likes another less efficient but smaller to implement compression algorythm/program. he said it reduces CPI from 58 (60) to 19KB (Gzip: 5KB or 6KB) only providing a few CPI-files will not do. That's the same as only providing most used keyboard layouts: useless for some people. compressing CPI-files allows more programs to be added. Bernd --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Robotic Monkeys at ThinkGeek For a limited time only, get FREE Ground shipping on all orders of $35 or more. Hurry up and shop folks, this offer expires April 30th! http://www.thinkgeek.com/freeshipping/?cpg=12297 ___ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS Beta9 RC5 has been released
Ooops... Aitor Santamaría Merino escribió: Bernd Blaauw escribió: right now on updated ODIN bootdisk the CPI files take almost 600KB (10 * 60KB), which is nearly half the disk! (and makes creating 720KB more difficult). Perhaps it's a question to check the CPI files, perhaps for MOST of the countries, just 2 or 3 of those CPI files are not enough, and not 10 of them. Ouch, I meant just 2 or 3 of those CPI files ARE enough (no not). Sorry... Aitor (Thanks Eric :)) --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Robotic Monkeys at ThinkGeek For a limited time only, get FREE Ground shipping on all orders of $35 or more. Hurry up and shop folks, this offer expires April 30th! http://www.thinkgeek.com/freeshipping/?cpg=12297 ___ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS Beta9 RC5 has been released
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Eric Auer wrote: This reminds me of the 386 question: How much bigger than the FAT16 kernel is the FAT32 kernel in RAM (low, umb, hma) and how much of this would be saved by optimizing for 386, experiences? Low: the drive data tables take 32 bytes more per drive (depends on the number of partitions you have, independent of LASTDRIVE) The 2 low fnodes take 6 bytes more for FAT32 (12 bytes total) HMA:HEX DEC 8086 80186 80386 8086 80186 80386 FAT16 995c 9694 94c5 39260 38548 38085 FAT32 a7cb a4ed a24a 42955 42221 41546 i.e. FAT32 adds ~3.5-3.7K; 386 optimizes out ~1.2-1.4K The fnodes take 6 bytes more (6 * #FILES) UMB no difference How about speed gain? Perhaps, sometimes 1, 2 or 3 more BUFFERS available can make a difference. Otherwise I can't see any visible speed difference. Bart --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS Beta9 RC5 has been released
Bart Oldeman escreveu: How about speed gain? Perhaps, sometimes 1, 2 or 3 more BUFFERS available can make a difference. Otherwise I can't see any visible speed difference. I did som testing some time ago (M$DOS) and my conclusion is that if other buffers are present (in my case smatrdrv and internal cache) it is best _not_ to have too much buffers, no more that something between 10 and 20. In my case I limited to 10, but I remember som Windows problem if buffers were 20, but that could be in wfw3.11... Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
