2 Apr
2003
2 Apr
'03
3 p.m.
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
As I mentioned earlier, I have a Forth that runs
standalone
on hard sectored. Since it is standalone, I've used it to
make exact copies of other disk. I've done things like changing
the interleaving to make about a 10X improvement in load
speeds for many programs.
I always wondered, if it was so easy to change the sector interleave on
disks to make them load faster, why didn't the original
programmers/designers optimize the interleave in the first place?
Things that make you go, "hmm".
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