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From: racine@yunexus.yorku.ca (Jeff Racine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Desqview disk access - ansi.com increases access time: how?
Summary: DV and ANSI.COM appear to significantly increase access time
Keywords: DV, ANSI.COM, disk access, significant speedup
Message-ID: <22197@yunexus.YorkU.CA>
Date: 1 Apr 91 21:47:44 GMT
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I have a 386 with 4MB of RAM. I run Desqview386 and use PCKWIK's disk
cache program.

Recently I uploaded PCMAG's ansi.com (replacement for ansi.sys) to try
out. However, when I ran it in a Desqview window, the strangest thing
happened: my disk access went through the roof. I ran the benchmark
program that came with PCKWIK, and disk access was a fast in the
window (nearly) as it was without Desqview.

I double checked and tried it on another system and the same thing
happened. I am not complaining :-) but am at a loss to explain. My
primary beef regarding Desqview was disk access within windows, and
this (apparently unrelated) simple program corrects the problem.

Two questions:

1) Why does this occur
2) Has anybody else noticed this?

Thanks for your time and effort.
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Jeff Racine        
racine@nexus.yorku.ca   
racine@yunexus.UUCP