Subject: Nice Work!
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@stockly.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/04/1999 01:56:52
I don't think I need to make a kernel driver for my device!
Due to the compact code in the kernel, what I've done is 500% faster than
FR/MSDOS!
I thought about adapting FreeDOS to my embedded app (www.freedos.org), and
started to get funny feelings with commands like "copy a:\*.*" didn't work.
:)
Then I made a program that only needed to load 16k at a time into a buffer
and send it out the parallel port at 16k/s. It couldn't even dream of
keeping up.
I compilied the SAME program on my newly setup BSD computer, and just for
fun ran it like this:
find / -name filethatisnthere; nice +20 ./play G*
Not one skip (in kbyte/s)and there was constant HD access!
Thanks for the great development and OS guys. :) I'll be contributing
with the SCSI serial interface and house automation devices soon...that is
once I figure out SCSI device drivers.
Grant