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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Wanted: SMARTDRV.SYS documentation
Message-ID: <1991May29.063753.21964@qualcomm.com>
Date: 29 May 91 06:37:53 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:
>>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]

Ever _if_ you are running Windows.  Hyper Disk Cache and PC-Kwik will work with
Windows as well as SMARTDRV.SYS does (the latest versions, anyhow) and are
much, much faster.


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