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From: bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Wanted: SMARTDRV.SYS documentation
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Date: 29 May 91 03:03:34 GMT
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In article <1991May28.165059.9933@midway.uchicago.edu> valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty) writes:
|bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman) writes:
|>Microsoft distributes the disk cache program SMARTDRV.SYS for free via
                                                            ^^^^^^^^
|>download from CompuServe [...]
|
|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]

Because they're free!

(Although I expect I'll break down and buy QEMM386 just to get back the
64 KB "upper memory" area which HIMEM won't give me.  4DOS can use this
area to good advantage.)

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