On Tue, 26 May 2015, Edouard Forler wrote:

> If I can find some time to do it, I would like to investigate why it is
> slow. ms-dos was written in assembly until ms-dos 4, however they kept
> much of it after that and as I said, ms-dos 6.22 works much faster on an
> XT. Is freedos written in assembly as well ?

I believe it's almost entirely C, which could explain the lower 
performance, although even MS-DOS 5 was mostly written in C.

Heck, I've read that parts as early as 3.1 were mostly written in C.

-uso.

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