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In article <sheldon.713715436@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu> sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:
>In <Bsu89r.3K6@cs.dal.ca> goldrick@ug.cs.dal.ca (Majeed  Goldrick) writes:
>
>>2) Add lots of ram (would RAM + a Cache be a good way to go?)
>
> Bingo!  4 Megs minimum.  I have 5 Megs of RAM in my machine, and it
>is running faster than any DX machine I've seen with only 2 Megs of
>RAM under windows.

I am running with 8 MB, with 2MB in a Hyperdisk cache.  Windows may not be
"blindingly fast", but I'm not about to upgrade my 386SX-16 yet.  I think the
cache is as important as the unallocated memory for Window's usage.

>>3) Invest in coprocessors?
>
> No, won't help too much.

Here I beg to differ.  A friend gave me a 387 (good friend!), despite my
protests that it was a waste.  For most applications it is, but not for
printing to a dot-matrix printer in graphics mode.  Pages that took 2 minutes
to be rasterized now get done in 10-20 seconds.  Wintach didn't report any
screen speedup (Diamond Speedstar Plus - Tseng 4000).  At $79 a Cyrix chip
might be worth looking into if you are experiencing agonizing print delay.
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