From: not@any.adr   
      
   OH WOW... I have _got_ to spend more time proof reading...   
      
   >Hmm, I don't agree. Mem transfer and CPU speed also increased. The ratio is   
   better,   
   >but not much.   
      
   Yes, but overall the entire thing is a really big lot faster.  The ratio seems   
   rather irrelevent when we realize that the average disk drive today is 60   
   times faster than the ones we had under DOS.   
      
      
   >However I miss "cache utilization" in this story.  Often people try to max   
   >the cache unnecessarily, since a small part already gives 95% of the   
   >performance advantage.   
      
   Exactly... 3 of 10 times the data requested is not already in the cache and   
   has to be grabbed from disk anyway. Most cache software has lousy hit/miss   
   ratios, typically 1 in 5 or less.   
      
      
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