richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) (08/02/88)
In article <751@applix.UUCP> scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden) writes: >In article <8807281433.AA02114@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes: > >Congrats. I think July was Hard Disk Month, since I and _several_ other >Amigoids I know got disks this month (also StarDrives). Yeah, really. Must be the moon or something. >I performed these experiments myself, and discovered that performance >improved noticeably if I _decreased_ the number of buffers- I currently >use 8. I also noticed that the WRITE speeds could almost be doubled >by adjusting the interleave to 2 or 3. I used a much less rigourous test of disk speed: I noticed that it was worthwhile loading WorkBench again. I used it at the beginning, but as I became more and more familiar with the system and got my gurus down to one a night, I'd rely more and more on the CLI (With Matt/Steves Shell) Before I got my hard drive, I dont think I had laoded the workbench in a year and a half, except every now and again to rename disks as I could never remember the syntax from the CLI. But as soon as this harddrive popped up, *poof* the WB was now more than a novelty or device for weaning ex-mac users, it became *desirable*. REAL desirable. Before, I would religously remove all .info files from every disk I owned. Now I have a shell script that creates one if one doesnt exists so I can ``see'' the file by double clicking on it via "more". Summary: Hard drives are WORTH going into debt for, folks. Also, if any of you out there are usung The C Shell with a supra drive, drop me a line, I have some observations/questions. -- AI is a shell game. richard@gryphon.CTS.COM {backbone}!gryphon!richard
peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (08/03/88)
One thing about hard drives... they make Browser a lot cooler. It becomes much more useful to load up the Tools menu with all your utilities. Speaking of Browser, I was planning on going commercial with it... but the amount of work I want to do on it before shipping it is horrifying, and I understand that Workbench 1.4 will let you see all files anyway. I'm thinking of giving up and going shareware. Would anyone send in some nominal amount for an upgraded version with CLI command support, should I get such a version working reliably...? -- Peter da Silva `-_-' peter@sugar.uu.net Have you hugged U your wolf today?
scott@attcan.UUCP (Scott MacQuarrie) (08/04/88)
In article <2387@sugar.uu.net>, peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: > Would anyone send in some nominal amount > for an upgraded version with CLI command support, should I get such a version > working reliably...? > -- > Peter da Silva `-_-' peter@sugar.uu.net > Have you hugged U your wolf today? I would, with pleasure. Scott MacQuarrie AT&T Canada Inc. uunet!attcan!scott