An interesting fact..

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From: Simon Harding
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 1995 00:00

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Question: If , when running Win95, you remove excess drivers etc from 
the autoexec.bat and config.sys, freeing more memory, does the 
machine speed up?

Answer: NO! I wrote a small bench marking program, which showed that 
an almost empty autoexec/config.sys slowed my machine (486DX2 66) 
down by 7%. Anyone know why?  I have run the test with all the programs 
that are supposed to help make the machine run faster and still the 
machine is slower!  Odd.  But on the + side my resources went up by 4%.

Anyone else noticed anything bizarre with resources/speed under Win95.


Simon

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      SIMON HARDING
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