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From: valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Wanted: SMARTDRV.SYS documentation
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Date: 28 May 91 16:50:59 GMT
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bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman) writes:

>Microsoft distributes the disk cache program SMARTDRV.SYS for free via
>download from CompuServe.  But it doesn't share the documentation,
>referring the user to the MS Windows User's Guide (which I don't have
>because I don't run Windows).

>I've tried running SMARTDRV on my 386SX PC with MS-DOS 3.30a, and it wants
>to take over all my extended (XMS via HIMEM.SYS) memory.  This leaves no
>XMS memory for 4DOS swapping.

Why would anyone *want* to run SMARTDRV (or, by the same token, HIMEM)
unless they were running WINDOWS?  (Surely, there are better caches and
better XMS drivers)  The only point of either of these programs is so
that you be doing things the Micro$oft way, all the way. [sic]
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