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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!geac!zooid!ross
  3. From: Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org>
  4. Subject: Re: Novice question: how to boot from a bat file?
  5. Organization: ZOOiD BBS
  6. Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 06:30:38 GMT
  7. Message-ID: <1992Sep2.063038.18522@zooid.guild.org>
  8. References: <1992Aug31.183957.1391@mits.mdata.fi> <1992Aug31.214211.20267@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Sep1.155702.18745@mits.mdata.fi>
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  11. kennu@mits.mdata.fi (Kenneth Falck) writes:
  12. >Actually, in this age of background-writing caches, the next MSDOS
  13. >release should probably contain a "flush cache buffers" interrupt
  14. >service which could become a standard point for all different
  15. >caching software to check for a call to flush. (Though I doubt
  16. >that even Microsoft's own software would reliably support it....:-)
  17.  
  18. The next release of MS-DOS should do away with cache drivers
  19. like Smartdrive entirely and provide reasonable caching in the 
  20. operating system like it should've in the first place.
  21.  
  22.                             Ross Ridge
  23.  
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  25. Ross Ridge - The Great HTMU                         l/     //
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  27. ross@zooid.guild.org                            /()\/()/
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