Hi, On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Edouard Forler <[email protected]> wrote: > > TOPBENCH looks cool, I will definitely try it.
Well, Trixter is a big fan of 8086/8088 and similar vintage hardware. It seems his last update (last month!) says there are now 200+ systems in his benchmark database. > The ODIN distro is available but http://fd-odin.dosius.com > <http://fd-odin.dosius.com/> supposedly the primary site, is down. I meant here (below), but it's not actively maintained (2005!), so I'm not sure how complete it is. But it's probably better than nothing. http://odin.fdos.org/odin2005/ I'm sure some pieces have been updated since then, but there's still a lot of things rough around the edges. (Always more TODO.) > Are you Brutman ? I love this guy's work. No, but he frequents the mailing lists (sometimes). And yes, we all appreciate his work. > As for FreeDOS, well, the shell was really slow. My original idea was to > get rid of Microsoft and get more features thanks to FreeDOS, but it was > really too slow. If something specific like "DIR" or "COPY" were too slow, that would be nice to know. But FreeCOM (shell) is quite a beast, so it's fairly complex (and has no current maintainer). If you want to try again (presumably with 0.84-pre2 but maybe also 0.82pl3), go ahead. It would be nice to know the exact commands that are bottlenecks for you. But there may not be any huge fixes any time soon. So, for now, a workaround would be to use third-party tools (under FreeDOS, not MS-DOS, natch) that are faster (e.g. 1dir or Zcopy or whatever, I can't remember everything). > I remember contributing about a bug in debug (was using > some forgotten 386 instructions somewhere in the code) There are several debuggers. I don't think most of them are actively maintained (e.g. Insight, FD Debug), but you're welcome to try anyways. > and that the people on the list mentioned that the poor performance might be > related > to some extenders loaded by default with FreeDOS but not necessarily > useful on a PC. I also contributed a few keymaps for Aitor. I must admit > I did not investigate further. Due to lack of time, not lack of > interest. Note that I tested this in 2006. I've just found the mails in > my archives :-) Wow almost 10 years ago ! Since you all know the > evolution of FreeDOS better than me, do you think it would be worth > trying it again ? Maybe, if you have enough time and energy to spare. Just don't get your hopes up too high. Some things still need a little TLC, but we're kinda low on volunteers. > By the way, do you know where I could find X-Tree (file > management software) and the original diagnostic tools that were > provided with these devices ? There are, of course, various file managers, but as far as Xtree (or compatibles), esp. for 8086, I have no idea. Not sure about MFM diagnostics. Actually, wasn't oldy-moldy-classic DOS Navigator 1.51 totally 16-bit? You could always try that (not directly Xtree compatible, AFAIK, but still extremely good). https://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/dn/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
