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From: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Track buffering.  Was "A Plea..."
Message-ID: <7525@swan.ulowell.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 88 21:06:49 GMT
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UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) wrote:
>track buffering would help floppies ... anybody ever do anything about this?

It wasn't like nobody every thought of it.  Early Amigas were 256K
systems, remember.  Add a couple of track buffers for df0 and df1 and
you're now using about 50K ... that's a lot of space on a 256K system.

Today things are different (memory wise), but not much, as that 50K
must still come out of CHIP ram.  (Well, I could see how to change that,
but why bother)

A better solution is to have the file system keep the buffers.
Use FACC or AddBuffers to accomplish that.

..Bob
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Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.  page@swan.ulowell.edu  ulowell!page