Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!vdsvax!hobbes From: perley@hobbes (Donald P Perley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Stupid: What is FacII Message-ID: <11985@vdsvax.crd.ge.com> Date: 28 Mar 90 21:41:30 GMT References: <1379@mindlink.UUCP> Sender: news@vdsvax.crd.ge.com Reply-To: perley@hobbes (Donald P Perley) Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY 12345 Lines: 24 In-reply-to: a464@mindlink.UUCP (Bruce Dawson) In article <1379@mindlink.UUCP>, a464@mindlink (Bruce Dawson) writes: >> po87553@tut.fi writes: One addition to what has been said: the function of FaccII is similar to "addbuffers", except that it shares the buffer pool between all your floppies. If you use FaccII (and you probably should), than DON'T use "addbuffers" for any floppy drives in your startup-sequence, as memory committed to addbuffers would be wasted. > One important detail about FaccII which has been left out is that it is a >commercial product. If you don't know what it is, then that probably means you >haven't bought a copy of it, so you should delete it from your disks. FaccII >is published by ASDG, and should be available in stores. There has been a lot of pirating of Facc, but they guy DID say he bought the computer used; I would assume it came with the machine. He could check that he has the original disk, or ask they guy he bought the computer from if he is a crook. -don perley perley@trub.crd.ge.com