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Well, not mine exactly, but the one at work.

I use a DX4-100 for downloading and processing files.  I also do a
similar job on a 33 MHz 486.  For operations involving only calculations
or printing to screen, the DX4-100 is 2.5 or 3 times faster than the 33
MHz.  But on operations involving intensive file access, the 100 machine
is half the speed of the 33, and on the Internet I get constant overruns
on the faster machine using Windows s/ware.

Something clearly isn't set up right.  Norton Utilities Sysinfo shows
the disc access times of both machines as being similar, so it looks to
me as if the DX4-100 has constipation somewhere.  I've tried obvious
variations to config.sys and so on.  It doesn't have any external cache,
and the BIOS is set for IDE HDD Block Mode.  Nothing else in the BIOS
setup looks noteworthy.

I'd be grateful for pointers on where to start.

-- 
Robert Wilson

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