Re: KUTIL for B&B syst

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From: Brian (B.C.) White
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1993 08:38

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>And if Eric didn't mean 129, track 0 was what Bruce Isted decided on when
>he designed the Eliminator.  Why?  You would have to ask Bruce.  I doubt it
>make the system boot that much faster.  On the other hand, I'm not sure why
>Chris Burke picked 128 and 129 for his system.

Having the boot at the front of the disk would save one head seek in time over
having it at the end of the disk (approx 10ms).  This is why Speedisk puts the
boot file at the end of the disk; you might as well save the prime real estate
for common files like directories and cmds.

These opinions are all                      Brian                 _ /  __/  _ /
mine and you can't have               ( studer@bnr.ca )          / / __ / __ /
any.  So there!                 ( bcwhite@sunee.uwaterloo.ca ) ___/ ___/ ___/
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