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From: st55j@elroy.uh.edu (Cachola, Leonard M)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: Memory swapping?
Date: 2 Sep 1994 02:31 CDT
Organization: University of Houston
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Message-ID: <2SEP199402314578@elroy.uh.edu>
References: <33mbat$h70@charnel.ecst.CSUChico.EDU> <rrwardCv8J9I.D8z@netcom.com>
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In article <rrwardCv8J9I.D8z@netcom.com>, rrward@netcom.com (Richard Ward) writes...
>You could go for a caching (hardware, not software) hard drive controller with
>a few megs on it.
>
>Richard
>
Why waste the money? Using the operating system to cache the
hard drive is much more efficient than using a caching controller
. and if you *really* want faster hard drive performance, buy
a faster hard drive (with an on-board cache)-- that's what
I did.
Leonard