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Article #3244Re: Wanted: SMARTDRV.SYS documentation
From: Bob Weissman
Date: Wed, 29 May 1991 03:03
Date: Wed, 29 May 1991 03:03
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In article <1991May28.165059.9933@midway.uchicago.edu> valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty) writes:
|bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman) writes:
|>Microsoft distributes the disk cache program SMARTDRV.SYS for free via
^^^^^^^^
|>download from CompuServe [...]
|
|Why would anyone *want* to run SMARTDRV (or, by the same token, HIMEM)
|unless they were running WINDOWS? (Surely, there are better caches and
|better XMS drivers) The only point of either of these programs is so
|that you be doing things the Micro$oft way, all the way. [sic]
Because they're free!
(Although I expect I'll break down and buy QEMM386 just to get back the
64 KB "upper memory" area which HIMEM won't give me. 4DOS can use this
area to good advantage.)
--
Bob Weissman
Internet: bob@omni.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!omni!bob From: bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: Wanted: SMARTDRV.SYS documentation Message-ID: <6333@mondo.omni.com> Date: 29 May 91 03:03:34 GMT References: <6330@mondo.omni.com> <1991May28.165059.9933@midway.uchicago.edu> Distribution: na Organization: Interphase West, Mountain View, CA Lines: 21