[ILUG-BOM] Pls suggest some lightweight desktop

[Satya]

On Jul 19, 2001 at 09:44, Philip S Tellis wrote:

>Basically, buffers are used when you have slow I/O devices.  Data is
>stored in the buffer while the device catches up with the sending rate.

Yes; buffers are FIFO.

>Cache on the other hand is used when the same data needs to be used over
>and over again.  Instead of reading it fro disk everytime, it is stored
>in a cache, and read from memory.

Yes. And it's usually random access. At least, modern caches are.

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