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NetDrive with read-ahead caching, running on a VM to a local server and to a server 50ms away. A 4KB read-ahead cache results in a 3x speedup locally and nearly a 5x speedup on the remote server.

Real hardware results depend on the speed of the hardware. Slow machines don't benefit much when connected to local servers, but they still get the full benefit on remote connections.

I haven't touched NetDrive in a while so I got motivated and just spent two hours adding a 1 sector read ahead cache into the code. After a read request the server sends one extra block, and the DOS side caches it. On the next read the DOS side checks the cache.

Running CHKDSK against a 200MB drive across the network to a server that is 47 milliseconds away was taking around 26.8 seconds. Now it takes 17.69 seconds.

Yep, this feature is worth doing ...

Replied to Willard Goosey

@goosey Welcome to the party! You are nearly 10 years late though ;-0

Telnet is getting some fixes soon - this week I fixed an ancient line wrapping bug that Tmux under Linux was exposing. I'm also working on making it faster because there is a lot of code that has to run before a character makes it to the screen.

Yell if you see any problems!

Also check out NetDrive for more storage than a Tandy 1000 should ever need ...

Ok I'm impressed!
Finally trying mTCP on my Tandy 1000 and everything is working really well!

Even telnet just kinda worked with the somewhat funky Tandy keyboard.
No muss, no fuss, no defining scancode to ascii maps. I am impressed!!!

This is probably going to replace my collection of ancient ncsa & wattcp tools.