[iyonix-support] Re: Setting 'Next' size
- From: george <george.greenfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 15:16:39 GMT
In message <3207a8224e.acld75@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
george <george.greenfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <4e2269128cj.mccartney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> John McCartney <j.mccartney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> In article <4e225c24eblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, John Williams
>> <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> > Is there any reason BTW why the default setting is 640K?
>>
>>> I seem to remember that's what it was on early PCs, and
>>> it was ridiculously large for economical RISC OS programs
>>> at the time.
>>
>>> Could it be 360K disks and 1 MB memory? That seems to
>>> work number-wise.
>>
>> If you menu over the floppy disc icon and look at the list
>> of format options, you'll find out why it's 640K. As far as
>> I'm aware, it's nothing at all to do with PCs. It's o that
>> an entire ADFS L format floppy can be copied into memory.
>>
>> John
>>
> Interesting, and as I suspected: this is a legacy of a much earlier
> generation of RO machines. Increasing the size radically speeds up
> directory copying ops by about 50%, I've found (E.g. [Before]: 20
> secs; [After increase to 10k]: 13 secs).
>
> George
>
That should have read 10000K - sorry.
George
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