#: 4449 S10/Tandy CoCo
    17-Jun-90  18:36:42
Sb: #4443-Drive stepping
Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
To: Denise Tomlinson 71021,3274

Denise,

Os9 is very disk intensive ... that's why folks insist on a two drive system as
a mere minimum, then a hard drive as soon as possible. If money's too tight for
one of those ... make good use of a ramdisk.

Without anything being loaded into memory, a simple set of commands to do
nothing but call up a directory, find a file then load it will hit the disk
many times.

Lessee ... first it gotta find DIR ..then it's gotta  find LOAD then it can go
after the file you need. You can cut down a lot of this by merging a lot of
your more frequently used commands/utilitys and loading them into memory.
Working from the ramdisk also helps in this way.

It's a trade off, tho .. less memory for instant access.

Steve