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In article <1991Apr14.091218.27869@milton.u.washington.edu> markh@milton.u.washington.edu (Mark Hirayama) writes:
>    I was just wondering if anyone out there in the network world could
>send me some  information about how I can take full advantage of my new
>system.  I just bought a 386-33MHz, and it's really nice and everything,
>but someone told me I would need certain utilities and perhaps modify some
>of my applications in order to fully utilize all this power.  How do I tap
>into this system?
>    I guess my main questions are:
>       1)  How can I take full advantage of my Cache memory?  (I think
>           there's 64K in here)
>       2)  How can I make use of the 4 MB RAM we had configured in this
>           computer.  When I run my compiler, it accesses the hard drive
>           so much I'm afraid I'm going to wear it out.  I want to install
>           a chunk of the compiler into memory so it could just access it
>           from there, if that's possible
>
Well, as an option for the compiler (if it doesn't support the 386 memory)
is to configure part of your ram as a ram disk, and have the compiler 
compile and access that. Firts that's a lot faster, a more convinient
(unless you forget to save the work you did and switch off the computer;).
Otherwise there are some programs out there that will help take advantage of
the powerful 386, and the memory (windows 3.0 comes to mind, although I
think it's overrated (I like it though;))

Sorry I can't be more help (I have a 286 myself;);)


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