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From: patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Deupree)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Problems setting up 386 enhanced mode
Message-ID: <1990Aug08.152305.14192@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 8 Aug 90 15:23:05 GMT
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Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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In article <14207@shlump.nac.dec.com> nadkarni@ashok.nac.dec.com (ashok p. nadkarni) writes:
>In case it is related, loading windows in 386 enhanced or even standard mode
>seems to take a long time with a LOT of disk activity. Real mode is much
>faster. Is this normal ?

When running in enhanced or standard mode, Windows has to create a swap file
on the disk.  It will basically use up a bit of your disk for this
file.  In real mode, this operation is not necessary since you don't have
virtual memory.  This being the case, it will start up much faster.
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