Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:54929 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:8579 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ceres.physics.uiowa.edu!news.iastate.edu!cs352a41 Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Command.com in ramdisk Message-ID: From: cs352a41@cs.iastate.edu (Adam Goldberg) Date: 14 Apr 91 01:01:05 GMT Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) References: <1991Apr12.192526.23566@rodan.acs.syr.edu> Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA Lines: 20 ldstern@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Larry Stern) writes: >To all: I've been told that creating a drive D with ramdrive.sys and loading >command.com there (ie. setting comspec=d:\command.com) will increase overall >performance and speed. Any comments? >P.S. I use a 286 AT clone, 640K base and 384K extended memory. I have exactly the same configuration, and I do what Larry suggests. Performance increase comes only when loading COMMAND.COM ... ie, exiting programs or spawning a dos shell from within a process. Admittedly, this isn't a great speed-up, but I haven't any easy way to use my upper 384K for anything else. Speaking of which, anyone have any ideas what I could do (for free) to utilize my 384K better than a Ramdisk? -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ! Adam Goldberg ! * ! "It's simple! Even a PASCAL ! ! cs352a41@cs.iastate.edu ! * ! programmer could do it!" ! +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+