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From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: win3.0 performance
Message-ID: <1990May29.164052.9034@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 29 May 90 16:40:52 GMT
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In article <1990May29.003825.20599@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
(in response to my stating that Windows speed has to do with system memory).
>It would depend on memory ONLY if you were previously running out.
>I never have.

With the way Windows swaps memory to disk (or disk cache) speed does have to
do with memory.  If I have enough in my system so that the system has to
swap to disk, it will slow things down.  If I have enough system memory so
that most or all of my stuff can remain resident, it's quicker.
-- 
"Organized fandom is composed of a bunch of nitpickers with a thing for
 trivial pursuit."  -Harlan Ellison

Patrick Deupree ->	patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us