I spent two long days coding streaming writes for mTCP NetDrive. I have some early results.
The test: Copy a large file (1.7MB) from a 386-40 with an NE2000 card to a Linux server about 1800 miles away.
Old code: 18KB/sec
New code: 214KB/sec
The new code is about 350 bytes larger and uses no additional memory on the client side. On the server side I just had to increase buffer sizes.
And DOS is none the wiser .. the remote server just looks like a drive letter.
#retrocomputing #mtcp
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