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From: beilke@puff.WISC.EDU (Matthew Beilke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Workbench improvements
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Date: Thu, 23-Apr-87 15:57:02 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 23 15:57:02 1987
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In article <27184@rochester.ARPA>, mcinerny@rochester.ARPA (Michael McInerny) writes:
> One of the two principles of Operating Systems (I'll leave the other to
> you) is "Cache It".  One easy way to solve the Icon speed problem is to
> chache the .info files.  Ideally, this would be in RAM, but we all know
> that RAM is volatile &c., so, what the WorkBench could do is build a 
> .Desktop-ish file of ALL the information (maybe just the bitmaps for the
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> 
> But what about the current .info files?  Keep 'em.  The .Desktop file 

    Well, I kind of do this already.  Put addbuffers (need V1.2) 
in your startup-sequence and as long as you don't do too much disk
swapping, it works nicely.

example startup-sequence:

    bindrivers
    addbuffers df1: 50		; 50 means 50K
    addbuffers df0: 50
    path sys:system add
    .
    .
    .
    loadwb
    endcli > nil:

    As long as you don't need lots of memory, or have a memory expansion,
you should be pleased with the results.

    This is only a temporary solution, I do like your idea, and also
the idea of having all the icons in a single directory <-Note: Not file
Why not a file?  Try doing an alticon/setalternate/mergeicon and you'll see.

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