How did MS-DOS decide on two seconds to keep the floppy disk cache valid?

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ND	How did MS-DOS decide on two seconds to keep the floppy disk cache valid? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
	15 points by paulmooreparks 2 days ago \| 0 comments on HN ~lite vlite-2.0

Summary ~lite

A technical blog post discussing MS-DOS floppy disk cache validity.

Lite evaluation by llama-4-scout-wai-psq · editorial channel only · no per-section breakdown available

Longitudinal 9 HN snapshots · 27 evals

Audit Trail 47 entries

2026-03-05 06:10	eval_success	PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.280 (3 dims)	- -
2026-03-05 06:10	eval	Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai-psq: +0.28 (Mild positive)
2026-03-05 06:04	eval_success	PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.198 (3 dims)	- -
2026-03-05 06:04	eval	Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai-psq: +0.20 (Mild positive)
2026-03-04 06:51	eval_success	Lite evaluated: Neutral (0.02)	- -
2026-03-04 06:51	eval	Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: +0.02 (Neutral) 0.00
	reasoning Technical blog post about MS-DOS history, no rights discussion
2026-03-04 06:51	rater_validation_warn	Lite validation warnings for model llama-4-scout-wai: 1W 0R	- -
2026-03-04 06:45	eval_success	Lite evaluated: Neutral (0.02)	- -
2026-03-04 06:45	eval	Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: +0.02 (Neutral) 0.00
	reasoning Technical blog post about MS-DOS history, no rights discussion
2026-03-04 06:45	rater_validation_warn	Lite validation warnings for model llama-4-scout-wai: 1W 0R	- -
2026-03-04 06:28	eval_success	Lite evaluated: Neutral (0.05)	- -
2026-03-04 06:28	rater_validation_warn	Lite validation warnings for model llama-3.3-70b-wai: 1W 0R	- -
2026-03-04 06:28	eval	Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: +0.05 (Neutral) 0.00
	reasoning Tech blog, neutral stance, open access
2026-03-03 23:17	eval_success	Lite evaluated: Neutral (0.02)	- -
2026-03-03 23:17	eval	Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: +0.02 (Neutral) 0.00
	reasoning Technical blog post about MS-DOS history, no rights discussion
2026-03-03 23:17	rater_validation_warn	Lite validation warnings for model llama-4-scout-wai: 1W 0R	- -
2026-03-03 23:16	eval_success	Lite evaluated: Neutral (0.05)	- -
2026-03-03 23:16	rater_validation_warn	Lite validation warnings for model llama-3.3-70b-wai: 1W 0R	- -
2026-03-03 23:16	eval	Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: +0.05 (Neutral) 0.00
	reasoning Tech blog, neutral stance, open access
2026-03-03 22:44	eval_success	Lite evaluated: Neutral (0.02)	- -
2026-03-03 22:44	eval	Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: +0.02 (Neutral) 0.00
	reasoning Technical blog post about MS-DOS history, no rights discussion
2026-03-03 22:44	rater_validation_warn	Lite validation warnings for model llama-4-scout-wai: 1W 0R	- -
2026-03-03 22:42	eval_success	Lite evaluated: Neutral (0.05)	- -
2026-03-03 22:42	eval	Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: +0.05 (Neutral) 0.00
	reasoning Tech blog, neutral stance, open access
2026-03-03 22:42	rater_validation_warn	Lite validation warnings for model llama-3.3-70b-wai: 1W 0R	- -
2026-03-03 22:15	eval_success	Lite evaluated: Neutral (0.02)	- -
2026-03-03 22:15	rater_validation_warn	Lite validation warnings for model llama-4-scout-wai: 1W 0R	- -
2026-03-03 22:15	eval	Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: +0.02 (Neutral) 0.00
	reasoning Technical blog post about MS-DOS history, no rights discussion
2026-03-03 22:12	eval_success	Lite evaluated: Neutral (0.05)	- -
2026-03-03 22:12	rater_validation_warn	Lite validation warnings for model llama-3.3-70b-wai: 1W 0R	- -
2026-03-03 22:12	eval	Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: +0.05 (Neutral) 0.00
	reasoning Tech blog, neutral stance, open access
2026-03-03 22:07	eval	Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: +0.05 (Neutral) 0.00
	reasoning Tech blog, neutral stance, open access
2026-03-03 21:16	eval	Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: +0.02 (Neutral) 0.00
	reasoning Technical blog post about MS-DOS history, no rights discussion
2026-03-03 21:06	eval	Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: +0.05 (Neutral) 0.00
	reasoning Tech blog, neutral stance, open access
2026-03-03 20:42	eval	Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: +0.02 (Neutral) 0.00
	reasoning Technical blog post about MS-DOS history, no rights discussion
2026-03-03 20:30	eval	Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: +0.05 (Neutral) 0.00
	reasoning Tech blog, neutral stance, open access
2026-03-03 20:09	eval	Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: +0.02 (Neutral) 0.00
	reasoning Technical blog post about MS-DOS history, no rights discussion
2026-03-03 20:04	eval	Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: +0.02 (Neutral) 0.00
	reasoning Technical blog post about MS-DOS history, no rights discussion
2026-03-03 19:58	eval	Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: +0.05 (Neutral) 0.00
	reasoning Tech blog, neutral stance, open access
2026-03-03 19:17	eval	Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: +0.02 (Neutral) 0.00
	reasoning Technical blog post about MS-DOS history, no rights discussion
2026-03-03 19:12	eval	Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: +0.02 (Neutral) 0.00
	reasoning Technical blog post about MS-DOS history, no rights discussion
2026-03-03 19:12	eval	Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: +0.05 (Neutral) 0.00
	reasoning Tech blog, neutral stance, open access
2026-03-03 18:26	eval	Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: +0.05 (Neutral) 0.00
	reasoning Tech blog, neutral stance, open access
2026-03-03 18:24	eval	Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: +0.02 (Neutral) 0.00
	reasoning Technical blog post about MS-DOS history, no rights discussion
2026-03-03 17:55	eval	Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: +0.05 (Neutral) 0.00
	reasoning Tech blog, neutral stance, open access
2026-03-03 17:51	eval	Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: +0.02 (Neutral)
	reasoning Technical blog post about MS-DOS history, no rights discussion
2026-03-03 17:50	eval	Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: +0.05 (Neutral)
	reasoning Tech blog, neutral stance, open access

build 826b5d5+wslm · deployed 2026-03-05 22:42 UTC · evaluated 2026-03-03 07:16:53 UTC