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BlitzDisk(tm) cache

    18-Nov-87 22:02:35
Fm: Charlie Heath 74216,2117
To: Bob Rakosky 75156,336
I've been using it with the hddisk device, and using the beta NEWFS too. It does pretty nicely, with 131072 bytes/sec read speed using diskperfa and a 32K buffer, as compared with 70849 without BlitzDisk. The biggest advantage with harddisks, if the driver is already pretty peppy, is just to cache directories and small programs, so I'm tweaking the adjustments for this. This will minimize seeks, and is particularly nice when you're multitasking and want to pop up a CLI or do a directory while something else is accessing the HD. …cheath