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From: taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: two questions...
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Date: 5 Nov 90 23:30:09 GMT
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>        I also remember that Apple Pascal dealt with 5.25" disks AS FAST
> AS PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE. (Someone told me this). It probably has to due
> at least partially with the fact that Apple Pascal makes you keep your
> files sequentially on disk (there's a better term for what I mean but I
> can't think of it).. there's a function for doing just that in the OS
> itself.  (You K)runch a disk)

    You mean to say that Apple Pascal keeps all your files CONTIGUOUS (all in
one continuous block, not scattered all over the place).  Is that feature
automatic?  Or do you have to specify Krunch Disk to optimize the files?  All
operating systems today have similar utilities which will do the same task. 
It's usually called optimization or defragmentation.  It speeds up file access
because the read/write head doesn't have to jump all over the disk looking for
the next piece of the file.

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