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From: burton@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Philip Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Can I configure W3 for "fast" and "slow" RAM
Keywords: 5 MB of RAM on cards  diskcache
Message-ID: <1590@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Date: 5 Sep 90 23:24:39 GMT
Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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I am "about" to upgrade to a 386 from my 6-year old AT, which has 5 MB of
RAM (256 Kb DRAM chips) on 3 different adapter cards.   I expect to get
a 33 MHz 386, and I understand why and how these RAM cards would drag
down the performance of my system.  

Thus, I expect to get 4 MB of motherboard memory with my new system.          

Reading the W3 docs, I find that I can waste lots of disk space with a swap
file to get virtual memory.  What I'd rather do is use the extra 5 MB as
"slow" memory, for a disk cache, print spooler, etc.  (Anyone else remember 
the LCS way back in the IBM/360 days??)

To make this work, I'd have to have a way of "initializing" Windows to load
only disk cache and print spooler in the slow memory, leaving the fast 
memory for applications.

Is this practical?

--Phil Burton--