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From: garyo@masscomp.UUCP (Gary Oberbrunner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: BCPL/AmigaDOS
Message-ID: <1807@masscomp.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 3-Jun-87 15:43:15 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  3 15:43:15 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 7-Jun-87 05:35:29 EDT
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In article <1959@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) writes:
)...  To improve hard disk performance, we and Tim
)King have been working on a file handler for hard disk drives,
)which does things like sort the seeks before doing them in
)an attempt to have only 1 pass over the disk, better use of
)the already existing AmigaDOS structures (ie improved exnext())...
)
)-- 
)andy finkel		{ihnp4|seismo|allegra}!cbmvax!andy 
)Commodore/Amiga		

Will this speed up floppy access a la speeddir, eless etc?  Or is it only a
hard disk handler?

				- Gary Oberbrunner
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