Reducing system calls overhead

James Van Artsdalen james at bigtex.uucp
Thu Sep 8 09:13:03 AEST 1988


In article <29 at usl-pc.usl.edu>, jpd at usl-pc.UUCP (DugalJP) wrote:

> [..] OS/2 does indeed have great possibilities, BUT only when the superior
> features of the 386 processor are used.  Doesn't OS/2 use only techniques
> possible on the 286?

Indeed OS/2 uses only 286 features.  But this isn't nearly a big a
problem as the file system: OS/2 uses the MS-DOS 3.x file system!  Not
only is this slow, but it limits the capacity of any logical drive to
32meg.  Even MS-DOS 4.0 can do better than this....
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