Here are some tests run between RDOS, Win98 and NT 4. The test where run on two different machines, both with a standard IDE drive and 64MB of memory.
This test was done by repeatedly open / close the same file.
AMD K6-400, small directory
RDOS, C, FAT32: 0.17ms
Win98, C, FAT32: 0.29ms
AMD-K6 400, large directory:
RDOS, native, FAT32: 0.27ms
Win98, Win32, FAT32: 0.60ms
Pentium 75, small directory:
RDOS, native, FAT16: 0.23ms
NT, Win32, FAT16: 0.67ms
RDOS is at least twice as fast as Windoze when it comes to open a file
This test was done by repeatedly perform a read on a 512kB large file in 512 byte blocks
AMD K6-2 400:
RDOS on FAT32: 2.5ms
RDOS on RAM-drive: 2.3ms
Win98 on FAT32: 13.6ms
Pentium 75:
RDOS, Native, RAM-drive: 25ms
NT, C, FAT16: 65ms
NT, Win32, FAT16: 57ms
RDOS is more than twice as fast as NT, and more than five times as fast as Win98.
This test was performed by making a DOS bat file, which assembles all the assembler files in RDOS OS directory (99 files)
AMD K6-2 400:
RDOS on FAT16, first time: 7.0s
RDOS on FAT16, second time: 5.5s
WinME on FAT16, first time: 9.5s
WinME on FAT16, second time: 7.0s
This test was done by performing COPY at the DOS-prompt from one directory to another. None of the files where touched prior to the copy.
AMD K6-2 400:
RDOS: 2s
WinME: 5s