Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!hellgate.utah.edu!wasatch!uplherc!esunix!blgardne From: blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: VD0 help (really BlitzDisk) Message-ID: <1513@esunix.UUCP> Date: 9 Sep 89 18:22:49 GMT References: Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation Lines: 27 From article , by atheybey@lcs.mit.edu (Andrew Heybey): > Speaking of HD, RAM & speeding things up, what > disk-caching programs exist for hard disks? I know of BlitzDisk from > MicroSmiths--is it available seperately or must I buy TxED to get it? > (I don't want TxED--my fingers have Emacs bindings ingrained.) I don't know of any hard drive cache programs besides BlitzDisk. And I don't think you can get it without buying TxEd+. As I recall (being a long time owner of both) BlitzDisk was available on both the TxEd and FastFonts packages that Microsmiths sold. Since FF became part of WB 1.3, FastFonts was dropped as a commercial package, and its various goodies (like ScreenDimmer) were added to the TxEd package. My history may be faulty, but I believe the only product that Microsmiths currently sells is the TxEd+ package. One note (from the BlitzDisk manual): it does NOT work with the HardFrame controller. There are no problems, but no buffering occurs. Since I've just switched to the HardFrame recently (see 's upcoming hard drive controller review), I'd like to know of any other hard drive cache programs. -- Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland 580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108 Here: utah-cs!esunix!blgardne {ucbvax,allegra,decvax}!decwrl!esunix!blgardne There: uunet!iconsys!caeco!i-core!worsel!blaine (My Amiga running uucp) "Nobody will ever need more than 64K." "Nobody needs multitasking on a PC."