walton@tybalt.caltech.edu (Steve Walton) (05/20/87)
Fellow Usenet'ers,
I saw Perry Kivilowitz at the recent LA Amiga show, and he demo'd
a new ASDG product which might be of some interest to the net. It is
called "facc" (fast access?), and is a smart disk caching program
which uses FAST RAM (unlike AddBuffers, which uses CHIP). It has a
nice mouse-controlled window which "iconifies" a la Matt's DME, and
has a four-column display (one for each drive) showing reads, writes,
cache hits and misses and hit percentage. For people with moderate
amounts of expansion memory (say 2 MB or less), such a program is
possibly preferable to a recoverable RAM disk, since you can hold on
to only those parts of the disk you're using most frequently, and that
can change dynamically as you switch tasks. The cost is $34.95.
Perry says, "Ask for it at your dealer, please, even if you don't want
to buy it."
Disclaimer: I have no interest in ASDG whatsoever other than
being interested in their products. The only ASDG item I have is the
RRD.
Steve Walton, guest as walton@tybalt.caltech.edu
AMETEK Computer Research Division, ametek!walton@csvax.caltech.edu
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