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by samdk 5615 days ago
Linux has been doing this for a lot longer than Windows has. (Which I only actually know because there was so much FUD about Vista's pre-fetching when it came out.)

edit: Sorry, getting prefetching and SuperFetch confused.
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barrkel 5615 days ago
MS shipped SMARTDRV with DOS 4.01, which shipped in 1989. By my reckoning, Windows (running on DOS) has had disk caching since before Linux existed.
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gaius 5615 days ago
Unix has been doing it... You talk as if Linus personally invented the idea of caching.
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recoiledsnake 5615 days ago
Doing what? Prefetching? It has been there since XP.It is not just simple caching. Windows probably was doing caching even before Linux existed.

What Vista does is SuperFetch and I don't think it's there in Linux even now, except that someone wrote a program that would do a similar thing but it's not really used that much.

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