Re: [Freedos-user] Benchmark volunteers wanted

2020-07-12 Thread Deposite Pirate
I have a Pentium 200 MMX system with a CF to IDE adapter and a bunch of CF cards with different OSes including custom installed (I don't use official installers and just install the old way and edit config.sys and autoexec.bat to my taste) FreeDOS 1.3rc3 and DR-DOS 8.1. I have used both to do

Re: [Freedos-user] Benchmark volunteers wanted

2020-07-12 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jerome and Mercury, > You got a preferred benchmark program? I have some ideas, yes... The idea is to compare filesystem performance of FreeDOS to other brands of DOS, so you would need some method of dual-booting, for example metakern or grub or lilo or similar. Typical tests would be to

Re: [Freedos-user] Benchmark volunteers wanted

2020-07-12 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi Eric, You got a preferred benchmark program? Just today I located my 486 DX2/66 notebook & docking station in my attic. Not sure either still works. But last time I powered it up, the notebook wouldn’t hold a charge. However it still worked. That was 10+ years ago. But, I think it’ll

Re: [Freedos-user] Benchmark volunteers wanted

2020-07-12 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
That's something I could do... as long as nobody minds the delay incurred by my packed schedule lol Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, July 12, 2020 4:12 PM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: > Hi DOS users :-) > As

[Freedos-user] Benchmark volunteers wanted

2020-07-12 Thread Eric Auer
Hi DOS users :-) As FreeDOS has the reputation of having slow disk I/O, I would like to get that quantified a bit... So if you have not only FreeDOS but also other DOS brands on your computers and can run the same tests on different DOS versions on the same hardware, I would like to get in