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From: Paul Denny x8349
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 22:56

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I am looking into assembling a 486 machine and my
research so far has raised a few questions which I
was hoping may be resolvable through the net.

As a starter I note that caching disc controllers
are supposed to increase the speed of disc intensive
applications but a salesman I spoke to 8^) claimed
that these are flakey designs as a single bad bit
can propogate through your data and corrupt it. He
suggested additional system RAM and partition it
in DOS to have a large cache area. Can anyone verify
or debunk this and provide an explanation?

Many thanks - Paul

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