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From: "Mark Habersack" <grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
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To: Lorier <lorier AT ihug DOT co DOT nz>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 10:24:21 +0100
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Once upon a time (on 19 Apr 97 at 12:28) Lorier said:

> >Slack isn't just lost space to me! It's time lost seeking over it! When you
> >have an hundred megs of slack, it takes time to cross those...
> >
> 
> Hadn't thought of THAT one before :)  Although having some SMALL amount of
> Slack can speed up the calculations for locating info on the disk :)
True, but fragments are really *cool*! I prefere to lose some time than to 
know that my 2GB just-bought super-duper HDD is being used in 80% just 
because the cluster is 64KB and config.sys and autoexec.bat take 128KB 
together while they really are 8KB ;-))
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