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> My favorite program in DOS was smartdrv.exe. The downside was, that in case of a crash, you will use some data.
by hulitu 2y ago
> My favorite program in DOS was smartdrv.exe.
The downside was, that in case of a crash, you will use some data.
- wruza 2y agoI was aware of that, but somehow it never happened, maybe got lucky. Smartdrv itself never crashed, and neither program crashes nor electricity issues affected it. Ofc I always used ctrl-alt-del before turning the pc off. It’s interesting what others experienced, cause I remember nothing about that in fido echoes (someone should have lost some data eventually). Was smartdrv even that different from today’s caching algorithms on all OSes?
- Joe_Cool 2y agoIf you had stuff that often crashed there was a write-through mode so it only did read caching. In one of the later versions it also trapped CTRL-ALT-DEL and did a sync before rebooting. It also did a sync each time command.com displayed a prompt. Really some neat coding for its time.