Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!bpa!cbmvax!vu-vlsi!lehi3b15!lxn!chris
From: chris@lxn.UUCP (Christopher D. Orr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Disk Cache programs vs. BUFFERS=: Whats the diff?
Keywords: disk cache, DOS buffer
Message-ID: <267@lxn.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 88 20:00:28 GMT
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Reply-To: chris@lxn.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE)
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Organization: Alcyone, Center Valley, PA
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I can tell you a couple of good reasons to use caching:

(1)  The cache that I use is one (1) Meg w/ my AST Rampage board on an
     XT compatible.  This gives me tremendous speed when doing
     compiles and such (i.e. small->no disk access)

(2)  The caching program that I use allows me to specify certain files
     to always cache and certain files not to cache.  This means that
     I can set my editor/compiter up as always cache and let the
     system decide what else should be cached.  This is BETTER than a
     ram disk since if I lose power, I won't lose my work (caches
     always write to the disk if needed, but avoid those unnecessary writes).

				Chris

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