Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!metapyr!david
From: david@metapyr.UUCP (David Relson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BBS under Desqview & Bocaram AT plus board questions
Keywords: Desqview, DV, Citadel-86, BBS, Bocaram AT plus
Message-ID: <176@metapyr.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 90 07:03:20 GMT
References: <1953@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Reply-To: david@metapyr.UUCP (David Relson)
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Organization: Meta Systems, Ltd. -- Ann Arbor, MI
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I can't answer all of your questions, only #2 - about the BocaRam AT Plus.
I have had one for about 6 months and it works fine.  Since it runs on the 
expansion bus (which is typically at 8 Mhz), it doesn't need especially fast
chips.  My board has 2 Mb of 100ns 1Mx1 chips and works fine with a 80386-16.

Concerning disk access times and apparent speed, I suggest that you allocate
some memory to a disk cache.  Then the first time some info is needed, it will 
be slow, but every other time will be very fast.