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Nothing of the sort. Rather, providing hard disk support for a caching system (now) seems not to be in the customer's best interest. I cite the following reasons: 1. The Fast File System acheives much of its speed improvement by el- iminating the buffering step between the user's program and the disk. A caching program will simply add back in the buffering step and thereby SLOW disk performance. 2. Steps taken to rectify reason one will lead to technical difficul- ties which perhaps other persons have not foreseen in their eager rush for the bucks. I will go so far as to predict that a certain as yet unreleased upgrade to a certain FaccII knock-off can proba- bly be made to corrupt Fast File System hard disks rather easily. 3. I have been told that V 1.4 of the Amiga O.S. will most likely con- tain code to make caching programs obsolete. ASDG, for one, is very skeptical about asking customers to pay for what they will later get for free. (I often wonder how people who payed good money for a product called FastFonts feel about that product now being avail- able for free). In summary, ASDG will not place its name on a product unless the prod- uct proves to be safe, provides real value, and in general, is worth the money people will be asked to pay. We leave providing products of dubious quality and questionable value to others who do not share our ideals.