john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell) (03/21/88)
Well I just got REZ (beta 1.03). Very impressive! It's truly a testament to a well-designed machine that something like this can be done and work so well. 2 comments; these may be of general interest so I'll post rather than mail. - "run" behaves oddly when REZ'ed under Shell 2.07M. I had it actually pop up a new prompt and block all input until the second task was actually completed, plus it kicked me out of Shell. - the $_path variable of shell which checks a number of directories for commands before passing control to the loader, may cause needless disk access. I have extended $_path to include df0:, df1:, bin directories, etc and so Shell was testing all of these before REZ had a chance to execute commands on the resident list. Solution - instead of the bare name, eg "cc", use one with a volume name eg ":cc". This will keep Shell from searching $_path and make loading instantaneous. Good job Jim! We now have the choice of at least two disk-caching schemes, several different ramdisks all with different features, and load-once/run many times commands. John