Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!rochester!cornell!vax8530!tt3x From: tt3x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Looking for a good disk cacher Message-ID: <3888.262728ec@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> Date: 14 Apr 90 17:43:08 GMT References: <19649@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Distribution: comp Lines: 22 In article , eggbert@bucsf.bu.edu (Eugene Wang) writes: >>>>> On 13 Apr 90 04:13:01 GMT, scholes@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (SCHOLES MARTIN LEE) said: > > >> I apologize if this question has appeared before, but... I'm searching for >> a good disk cacher (or at least one that works on my 386). I've tried many, > > The best that I've heard about, which has also been lauded by PC Magazine > among others, is the PC Kwik Power-Pak from Multisoft. It include the disk > cache, which has reported no incompatibilities among major PC programs, a > print spooler, keyboard speedup, video speedup, and other DOS goodies. > > -- > I used to use PC-Kwik myself until I realized that Microsoft Windows 386 own SMARTDRV.SYS seems to do a better job. Running CORETEST on both programs show that SMARTDRV.SYS outclassed PC-KWIK. Might be my imagination but it sure works good... Plus, it works with Windows 386 so I have nothing to complain about! Bobby Li