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Path: oz.cdrom.com!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bill
From: bill@msi.com (Bill Poitras)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: Memory swapping?
Date: 3 Sep 1994 16:29:21 GMT
Organization: Molecular Simulations, Inc.
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References: <33mbat$h70@charnel.ecst.CSUChico.EDU> <rrwardCv8J9I.D8z@netcom.com> <2SEP199402314578@elroy.uh.edu> <34a7st$hr5@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
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Bill Poitras (bill@msi.com) wrote:
: I second this. I recently bought a MaxStor 540MB drive that spins at
: 6300 RPM (most IDE drives spin at 4500) with an access time of 9ms
: (average is about 12ms) and WOW. What a difference that made over my
: ESDI drive (which is slower then even average IDE drives). I paid
: $US429. The slower IDE drive at the same size by MaxStor was $388. So if
: you don't have a modern IDE drive, you might consider getting one. If
: you want the fastest, ask for one that spins at 6300 RPM.
: And don'tforget to add the /SMS flag in the BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD line.
Oops. Sorry, this last tip was for OS/2 users, not for Doom users.
Wrong newgroup :-)
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