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- QUICKCACHE II v4.11 P.R.GLASSEL REGISTRATION $25.00
- CACHE HARD DRIVE DISK GLASSEL
-
- by
- P. R. GLASSEL and ASSOCIATES, INC.
- 30255 Fir Trail, Stacy, MN 55079
- U.S.A.
-
- This product is an extension to the PC-DOS operating system
- that sub- stantially improves the performance of the
- operating system by adding an intelligent I/O subsystem
- between the logical I/O layer and the physical I/O layer of
- the computing system.
-
- This process has the net effect of converting the operating
- system's physical I/O requests into logical requests that
- are serviced by the intelligent I/O subsystem. Actual
- physical I/O requests are then made by the I/O subsystem
- when necessary, and in the most efficient manner possible
- for the current operating environment.
-
- This is accomplished by three major facilities within the
- QUICKCACHE I/O subsystem that cooperate to provide optimum
- performance. The primary facility is the disk sector
- caching facility.
-
- This facility utilizes a hashing mechanism to reduce the
- number of sectors in the cache that must be examined at I/O
- time to a bare mini- mum. Under most circumstances the
- number of sectors that must be examined will be three or
- less regardless of the number of sector buffers that are
- supported. This allows QUICKCACHE to support signifi-
- cantly more sector buffers than PC-DOS is capable of
- supporting without encountering any performance degradation.
-
- QUICKCACHE uses a sophisticated and efficient algorithm that
- accounts for the frequency of use as well as how recently a
- sector buffer has been used to determine the optimum sector
- buffer to flush whenever additional cache space is necessary
- for a new sector.
-
- In addition to providing an ultra-sophisticated caching
- mechanism for managing sector buffers, QUICKCACHE provides a
- read-ahead facility and a write-buffering facility that
- allow physical I/O requests to be made in the most efficient
- manner possible for the media being supported. Since the
- system requirements for one program may be quite different
- from the system requirements of another program, QUICKCACHE
- allows ALL significant configuration options to be altered
- DYNAMICALLY, eliminat- ing the need for re-booting your
- system when it becomes desirable to change the operating
- environment to suit the particular needs of a specific
- program.
-
- This extension requires no modification to any user programs
- and works with the 2.xx, 3.xx, and 4.xx releases of PC-DOS
- and most versions of MS-DOS.
-
- It requires 10kb of memory for the actual I/O subsystem
- code, and 530 bytes for each sector supported (a minimum of
- 40 is recommended). Memory for sector buffers may be
- allocated from system main memory, extended memory, or from
- any expanded memory that supports the Lotus/Intel/Microsoft
- expanded memory specification.
-
- This package also includes a high speed sort utility and a
- disk backup utility. These utilities are designed to take
- advantage of the disk caching system to produce impressive
- performance for a wide range of environments.
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-