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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Some System 7 questions...
Message-ID: <13787@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 31 May 91 17:18:01 GMT
References: <1991May31.151901.10137@Think.COM> <1991May31.155150.5074@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Organization: Object Based Systems, Apple Computer, Inc.
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In article <1991May31.155150.5074@hubcap.clemson.edu> jcocon@hubcap.clemson.edu (james c oconnor) writes:
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>Did Apple change the caching algorithm?  If not, why the huge cache?
>I'd heard that the cache was pretty much a waste of RAM if it got over
>some small number, say 128k (remember when that was how much RAM Macs

I think System 7 does fix the caching algorithm.  At least if you click the
Use Defaults button the system often recommends larger caches (e.g., 512K on
my 16Mb fx).

-- 
Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.

lsr@apple.com
(or AppleLink: Rosenstein1)