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In <674529809wnr@rosebery.demon.co.uk> Brian@rosebery.demon.co.uk (Brian 
Sheehan) writes: 

>
>I'm currently trying to decide to establish my windows 3.11 
>setup with either 32 bit file and disk acccess enabled or 
>to use the utility Rocket. Under DOS I'm certainly getting 
>better performance but under Windows the performance seems
>almost identical (I'm using the Western Digital driver for 
>my two hard disks), although throughput figures measured 
>with PC Tools for Windows gives Rocket a slight edge. 
>The throughput is about 1200kbs. 
>
>My system is a standard ISA bus type.(Yep I want PCI and 
>Enhanced IDE)
>
>
>What puzzles me is that the system feels faster with 32-bit 
>file/disk is enabled (yet the throughout figures suggest otherwise)
>and also the completely difference sounds I get from my hard disk 
>when Rocket is enabled - like a high pitch whine.
>
>Can anyone pass on their views regarding this software please. 
>
>Brian Sheehan
>Brian@rosebery.demon.co.uk
>

My jury is still out on DR but the 'feel' you get that the machine is 
faster with 32-bit enabled is real and has little to do with the 
transfer rate. What is making the big difference is that with standard 
Windows the Windows system drops repeatedly into real mode to do disk 
transfers and then back up into 386 enhanced after each file is read in. 
In WFWG, with 32-bit enabled and vcache set properly, the Windows system 
stays in 386 enhanced and does not incur the overhead of switching 
modes. Vcache does a much better job of caching as it is working at the 
32-bit level. Your choice depends upon what kinds of work you are doing 
and where you see the greatest overall performance increases in your 
daily operations.

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