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In article <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. 
> 

I use Rocket and it seems to give good results - but then again it depends
on how much time you spend using DOS. I use Windows for word processing, 
wasting time etc and DOS for comms and number crunching. If you use a DOS
database I would suggest that you use Rocket - or have different startup 
options


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leo

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