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From: rdippold@maui.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Norton cache and Windows
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Date: 28 Feb 91 23:34:08 GMT
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In article <1991Feb28.185736.17694@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jakg1190@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (J. 'Priapus' Kmiecik) writes:
>There has been some talk here about which hard drive cache is best to use
>with Windows 3.  I have Norton Utilities 5 and have used the fast-cache
>version (ncache-f) included in the package for the DOS environment.  How
>well will this cache program work with windows and how does it compare with
>Smartdrive.sys or other Windows-capable caches?  Are there any potential
>problems using ncache-f and windows?

I've only been using it a short while, but I find that HyperDisk Cache will
blow away smartdrive, PC Tools Cache, Norton Cache, and just about any other
cache out there, although I've heard good things about the PC Kwic cache.

It's faster and it has more options than any of the other caches, and it
is fully Windows 3.0 compatible, and includes such nice features as buffered
writes, floppy caching, use of extended, expanded, or regular memory, and
more.

The best thing is, it is shareware, so you should be able to find a version
of it somewhere and try it out.  I downloaded it from a local BBS, so I don't
know if it's on any ftp sites.  The latest version is 4.20, I believe.