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From: john13@garfield.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Disk fragmentation????
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Date: Sat, 31-Oct-87 19:58:18 EST
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Keywords: loading many programs at once...

In article <257@gethen.UUCP> farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) writes:
> It would seem that no attempt has been made to optimize disk accesses when 
> trying to do simultaneous access to different files; 

This reminds me, I have (actually my only copy is on loan for a couple of days)
a program that claims to do exactly this. "Eliminate drive multitasking" it
says. From the desription I though it was another NoKlickStart, but apparently
it does something with trackdisk.device to intelligently arbitrate commands
for disk access.

I haven't looked at it closely, but I will when I get it back and probably
post it (binary only I think) if it's any good. (The name is "Finish" in case
anyone else also has it.)

John
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