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From: DOUG@ysub.ysu.edu (Doug Sewell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Disk Caches - PC-Tools & Super PC-Kwik
Message-ID: <90153.161322DOUG@ysub.ysu.edu>
Date: 2 Jun 90 20:13:22 GMT
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Organization: Youngstown State University VM system (YSUB)
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The way I heard it:

The cache in PCTOOLS 4.0-4.11 or so was written by Central Point.
It was buggy, particularly in the way it handled Extended memory.

In PCTOOLS 4.22 (I had copies of both 4.11 and 4.22), the cache
was changed to PC-Kwik, licensed from the vendor.  It didn't have
all of the bells-and-whistles of Super-PC-Kwik.

This difference caused grief for a friend that swore he had a bad
ram-chip (instead, it was the 4.11 cache - when he upgraded to 5.x,
he got the new cache and the problem went away).

The cache in 6.0 is reported to be Central Point's - and apparently
it still has some lingering bugs.  I haven't gotten my R6 yet, but
I've already decided to save my R5.5 cache program.

Doug Sewell, Tech Support, Computer Center,
Youngstown State University, Youngstown,  OH 44555
E-mail: DOUG@YSUB.BITNET, DOUG@YSUB.YSU.EDU, ...!uunet!ysub.ysu.edu!doug
>> I am not a wizard.  What I do isn't magic.  I am a computer professional.