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From: borton@sdcc3.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: caching and the cache bit: reminder
Message-ID: <3236@sdcc3.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 19-Apr-86 22:09:21 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 19 22:09:21 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Apr-86 02:37:29 EST
Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center
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Keywords: cache bit resedit

This is just a reminder to people with the new ROMs who have some amount of
RAM allotted for caching: applications will *NOT* use the cache unless the
'cache bit' for that application is set.  This is easily done with ResEdit's
Get Info on a file.

I assume Apple did this for compatibility reasons, but it will be quite a
while before applications will come out with this bit already on.  I
personally was amazed at what a difference it made after I 'went around' and
turned on all the bits of my favorite applications.  Disk-intensive programs
like Excel and Factfinder benefit especially.

Has anyone found any incompatibilities?  [Does some kind soul wish to write a
quick 'installer' that turns on the cache bit of each file selected?
T'would be nice for people that don't enjoy working with the megolith ResEdit
like I do]

-Chris
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Chris Borton, UC San Diego Undergraduate CS; Micro Consultant, UCSD
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