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From: dmurdoch@watstat.uwaterloo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Speeding up
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Date: 18 Aug 90 02:49:48 GMT
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In article <a0u1N4w162w@halcyon.wa.com> ralphs@halcyon.wa.com (Ralph Sims) writes:
>Also, here's a little snippet to add a 1/10th of an SI or so.  Run this
>through debug.  Call it something and then debug <something
>
>////clip here////
>
> N SPEEDSTR.COM

I certainly wouldn't recommend that anyone run this program.  What it does
is reprogram the timer chip to change the rate of RAM refresh.  However, it
tries to make itself appear as if it's doing much more - all those repeated
bytes don't do a thing, and it prints a misleading message about installing
a driver. 

I didn't look into it in enough detail to know whether the reprogramming it
does is safe or not - the fact that it's trying to deceive is enough
reason to avoid it.

Duncan Murdoch