Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!dalcs!garfield!john13
From: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Shell 2.08m?? (really drive access speedup)
Message-ID: <4321@garfield.UUCP>
Date: 26 Dec 87 03:39:37 GMT
References: <269@dana.UUCP> <1987Dec20.175713.7918@sq.uucp> <1507@loral.UUCP>
Reply-To: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
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Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's
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In article <1507@loral.UUCP> dml@loral.UUCP (Dave Lewis) writes:
>  'Nother thing -- somebody said a while ago that if you copy all the commands
>and other files referenced by Startup-sequence to the disk FIRST, the Amiga
>will boot up faster. "It's twue, it's twue!" Sometimes twice as fast. So, in

And for people without any Megs, putting the libraries on a disk first gives
you a major speedup when linking. This will also work for large programs you
load often, eg if "cc" grinds your disk when loading, it will whisper if it's
one of the first things on the disk.

John
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