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From: kim@amdahl.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Info on WOW
Message-ID: <5733@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Feb-87 14:20:26 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 23 14:20:26 1987
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Keywords: amiga disk wow

In article <105@usafa.UUCP>, watt@usafa.UUCP (Capt Glenn Watt) writes:
> Has anyone purchased or seen a piece of software (I think) called WOW?
> It was listed in the march issue of the amiga  buyers guide as a floppy
> disk performance enhancement that allows a floppy to work faster than a
> hard disk.

I recall hearing mention of this product at a FAUG meeting a couple of
months ago.  WOW is a disk caching program, and as such is quite likely
to be faster than a hard disk assuming they use a decent caching algorithm
(at least for sequential [as opposed to random] accesses).  Of course
it won't help at all on the initial access of a "block of information",
but sebsequent accesses to "blocks of information" near the initial one
will occur at RAM speeds.

Intuitive Technologies is the company that "emerged from the ashes" of
the MaxiSoft company, as I recall, and they seem to have really gotten
their act together with the Macros version of MaxiPlan.  It looked GOOD!

Also at the FAUG meeting, they showed a resident "keyboard enhancer"
program that provided macro capabilities that was really nice.  You
could have it remember keystroke AND mouse events, and then repeat them
with a single keystroke, by name, etc.  Had conditionals, etc. in it too.

From what they said then, these should be available about now ...

/kim


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