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The reason behind Win95 showing icons much faster than any Amiga was due to the relatively slow filesystem used by the Amiga, not by its hardware speed, which i
by squarefoot 5y ago
The reason behind Win95 showing icons much faster than any Amiga was due to the relatively slow filesystem used by the Amiga, not by its hardware speed, which in fact was a bit faster than PCs in a MHz to MHz comparison.
- bcrl 5y agoThe complete lack of a disk cache integrated with the OS on the Amiga hurt as well. Even MS-DOS was shipping with disk caching software to make use of high memory on 386 systems in the early 1990s when AmigaOS had just launched 2.04.
- icedchai 5y agoAlso the Amiga was slow due to the simplistic way metadata / icons were handled. There was a separate "file.info" file, containing the icon and some other metadata, for each actual file on disk.