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From: ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Gerald Greenberg)
Subject: Re: Whats the best system config for Windows on a 286 ??
Message-ID: <1991May31.015627.23755@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Summary: Check PCComputing April 1991 
Keywords: 286 
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
References: <1991May30.075200.15058@latcs1.lat.oz.au>
Date: Fri, 31 May 91 01:56:27 GMT

In article <1991May30.075200.15058@latcs1.lat.oz.au> wignall@latcs1.lat.oz.au (Chris) writes:
>I have a 12 Meg 286 with 2Mb of memory. I use Windows mainly with WFW, with ATM
>in the background. I am interested in what people think is the best 
>configuration for the best performance. That is what disk cache to use, how 
>a big a disk cache to use, size of ATM font cache etc. I am asking this because
>I am not really happy with the general performance.. ie scrolling speed, screen
>updates etc...
>
>Also do people think that 2Mb is enough on a 286 .. I sometimes uses programs
>such as designer in conjunction with word.
>	
>	thanks Chris Wignall
>	wignall@latcs1.lat.oz.au
> 

I tried to post this to the net earlier in regard to a similar
question, but messed up.  Here it is again:
There's an interesting article in the April 1991 issue of
PCComputing called "Make Windows Soar on a 286".  It is
written by Doug Van Kirk and is pretty interesting.  For
example, he says as a rule of thumb, you shouldn't give more
than one third of your memory to a cache, but you should
retain 1.5 MB for Windows and Windows programs.  He gives
benchmarks for various setups, too.  I think it is worth
checking out.
--Gerry
ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu