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From: ergo@netcom.COM (Isaac Rabinovitch)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Windows on diskless workstations
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.011759.3232@netcom.COM>
Date: 23 Apr 91 01:17:59 GMT
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In <1991Apr20.011102.26644@serval.net.wsu.edu> ckinsman@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Chris Kinsman) writes:

>512K is not a bad size (actually a little small if you are printing 300 dpi
>graphics to a laser) for a ramdisk to set your temp variable to.  I would
>not swap in 386EM mode to it however.  I think you would be better off with
>the real memory in 386EM.  In real and standard mode a 512K-1024K ramdisk
>with the TEMP variable set to it is better.

Could you elaborate?  I've set aside 1 meg extended for TEMP, but I'm
beginning to wonder what good it does.  I doubt if many program I have
use it at all.  (Don't do a lot of graphics printing, and my printer
is just an inkjet anyway.)
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