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From: yoshida@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Stuart Yoshida)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Norton cache and Windows
Message-ID: <7450004@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
Date: 4 Mar 91 22:28:18 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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altman@sbstaff2.cs.sunysb.edu (Jeff Altman) writes:
> [...]
> 	I have spent a considerable amount of time trying to find the 
> perfect cache.  So far as I have stated earlier I feel the best package
> is Hyperdisk.  PC Week agrees, with one reservation.  Hyperdisk is not
> compatible with all drives.  This is because it does not use BIOS calls
> but instead goes directly to the hardware.
> --
> - Jeff (jaltman@ccmail.sunysb.edu)
> ----------

  I just talked with the author of HyperDisk, and he said, "Hyperdisk
  uses BIOS calls ONLY.  It's funny how rumors get started, isn't it?"

  So whatever problems HyperDisk has, it's *NOT* because it goes
  directly to the hardware.  It does not circumvent the software
  interface protocols; it definitely uses BIOS calls.

--

  Stuart

  "Every place around the world it seemed the same
   Can't hear the rhythm for the drums
   Everybody wants to look the other way
   When something wicked this way comes."
			--Jeremiah Blues by STING

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