Re: KUTIL for B&B syst

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From: Bob Billson
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1993 17:02

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Brian (B.C.) White <BNR.CA!studer> says:
>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

Better get my stopwatch out. :-)

>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.

Makes sense.  And for those of us leave the CoCo running all the time we
hardly notice it unless we crash the machine alot during software development.
;-)
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