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From: Ritzert@DMZRZU71.BITNET
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Subject: Re: Ratehd
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Date: 21 Mar 90 22:36:00 GMT
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Subject: ICD RateHD
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>In article <9002212030.aa00488@benjamin.Cs.Bham.AC.UK>
> RiddCJ@computer-science.birmingham.ac.UK (Chris Ridd) writes:
>[stuff deleted for inews's sake]
>>my root partition (only about 4Megs) and ran it again.  This time, the access
>>time was only about 36ms!  Has DLII (the defragger used) done something
>>unexpected to my drive, or has RateHD gone doolally?
>>
>>-- Chris Ridd, Computer Science, Birmingham Uni, UK -- RiddCJ@Cs.Bham.Ac.Uk --

This confirms an observation of mine which I reported on Usenet and a
lot of people didn't want to believe me...   Calling such a behaviour
"buggy" (as I did) or "not always constant" describes only a different
attitude toward it.

Michael Ritzert
mjr@dmzrzu71.bitnet

A feature is a bug that is documented. (ws)