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From: rich@se-sd.sandiego.ncr.com (Rich Hume)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Just how smart is "SmartDrive"?
Message-ID: <1771@se-sd.sandiego.ncr.com>
Date: 10 Feb 89 17:01:02 GMT
References: <7229@june.cs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: rich@se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM (Rich Hume(AEP))
Organization: NCR Corp. Systems Engineering, San Diego
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In article <7229@june.cs.washington.edu> roper@june.cs.washington.edu (Michael Roper) writes:
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>no evidence (MS-Exec About Box) that this actually works.  I
>suppose it is possible that the original size of SmartDrive is
>always displayed, but that doesn't seem too useful and makes
>even less sense since these programs are supposed to be working
>together.
>
>Does this really work?
>

It works for me.  If you assign nearly all of expanded memory to smartdrive
and then load a few windows apps, you will see the number reported by
MS-Exec for smartdrive will go down.  After closing the apps, the
number will again increase.

Rich Hume