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From: ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 386sx, set high-memory to extended or expanded memory?
Message-ID: <1991Jan5.183552.20482@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 5 Jan 91 18:35:52 GMT
References: <13724@encore.Encore.COM>
Organization: Oklahoma State University
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From article <13724@encore.Encore.COM>, by schwalbe@pinocchio.Encore.COM (Jim Schwalbe):
> The only negative effect I've noticed so far from QEMM is that
> it slow the hard drive data transfer rate down from about 800 K-bytes/sec to
> just over 500 K-bytes/sec :-(  Someone on the net here warned about that and
> it is true, I noticed it right away.  I've decided to live with it for the 
> benefits of QEMM.  BTW, QEMM takes up less memory below 640K than other
> expanded memory managers alone (including Windows expanded memory manager) and
> it acts like a expanded and extended memory manager.

Yes, I too notice the disk slowdown, but did not think much of it until
you mentioned it.  Anyone else see it?