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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Harddisks for Amiga 2000
Message-ID: <2966@well.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Apr-87 04:49:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.2966
Posted: Thu Apr 30 04:49:49 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 2-May-87 07:46:45 EDT
References: <8704281918.AA08964@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
Lines: 18
Keywords: nitpicking
Summary: Semantic Alert

In article <8704281918.AA08964@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>	(2) If AmigaDOS were to cache whatever-the-hell it's tracking back
>	for (when reading and writing LARGE files.. as in >30K)... 
>	tic tic tic traaack traack tic tic tic traack traack, then file load
>	time would almost double, and file save time would also almost double.
>			  ^^^^^^				       ^^^^^^
	Er, um...  Don't you mean halve?  Yeah, of course you do....

	BTW, AmigaDOS doesn't need to cache file control blocks.  Every data
block points to the next data block, if any.  Someone at MetaComCo was
asleep at the editor, I'd say...

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