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Article #3245Re: Wanted: SMARTDRV.SYS documentation
From: Ron Dippold
Date: Wed, 29 May 1991 06:37
Date: Wed, 29 May 1991 06:37
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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: >>I've tried running SMARTDRV on my 386SX PC with MS-DOS 3.30a, and it wants >>to take over all my extended (XMS via HIMEM.SYS) memory. This leaves no >>XMS memory for 4DOS swapping. > >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] Ever _if_ you are running Windows. Hyper Disk Cache and PC-Kwik will work with Windows as well as SMARTDRV.SYS does (the latest versions, anyhow) and are much, much faster. -- Standard disclaimer applies, you legalistic hacks. | Ron Dippold
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!ucsd!qualcom.qualcomm.com!cancun.qualcomm.com!rdippold From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: Wanted: SMARTDRV.SYS documentation Message-ID: <1991May29.063753.21964@qualcomm.com> Date: 29 May 91 06:37:53 GMT References: <6330@mondo.omni.com> <1991May28.165059.9933@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@qualcomm.com Distribution: na Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: cancun.qualcomm.com