ARPAVAX:C70:info-cpm (10/10/82)
>From CSTROM@Mit-Mc Sun Oct 10 08:23:27 1982
The claim is tha Cache/Q will work in any CP/M 2.2 system. It will not
boot up properly under ZCPR, but I assembled a relocated ZCPR (C/Q
uses a CCP 600H bytes lower than normal) and was able to cold boot
under the stock CCP and then install C/Q with the ZCPR in control.
Actually, the system reads in a file called CCP.SYS and in theory a
system is not needed on the first two tracks to go from disk to disk.
This would allow booting a single density disk on the A drive using a
Godbout controller (normally forbidden since the BIOS won't fit.)
Problems - It appears that the author (Pete Roberts) developed the
system on a hard disk and forgot to do a drive reset BDOS call when
you warm boot, so unless CCP.SYS is located in the same place on each
disk, it will crash. This was news to Pete when I called to bitch. It
makes me wonder how someone can market a program without beta testing.
Another bug is that there is a routine to specify the file type to be
bufferred, with the option of inversion (in other words buffer all
.CO? files or dont buffer any .CO? files for example) but this doesn't
work either. You can either buffer all files or none at this point. I
have been promised a fix on this as well. I would say that until these
two bugs are fixed, the buffering program is of dubious value. It will
buffer the directory, and that speeds things up slightly, but you need
a lot of extended address memory for it to be of use in buffering
files. My 20K of extended memory is barely enough to notice. Using it
without extended memory is probably a waste of effort, since it
buffers on a file by file basis rather than on a track by track basis
as does FAST.
Supplier is Techne Software, 3685 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Suite 130,
Lafayette, Ca. 94549. 415-283-6824.
I will report if and when the program runs as advertised; in the
meantime, I would recommend that you save your $195!