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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 bigot meets NT....
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.212252.8017@wam.umd.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec25.232450.19632@actrix.gen.nz> <1992Dec26.145826.21639@wam.umd.edu> <1992Dec26.192753.23157@actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 21:22:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec26.192753.23157@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
- >In article <1992Dec26.145826.21639@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- >> >> You're thinking like a dos user. It is not a bad idea to have
- >> >> the system auto-adjust and *allow* the user to fix it when you're
- >> >> talking about something that's suposed to be user friendly.
- >> >
- >> >OS/2 ignores cache setting amount higher that 2048K.....
- >>
- >> That's because it's stupid. IBM should fix it, but they
- >> have no intention of doing so.
- >
- >It is not a bug....it is quite intentional. Therefore, you are correct about a
- >lack of intention to fix it. But it kind of ruins your theory about migrating
- >a hard disk to a machine with less RAM.....
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- Not at all. Try setting a 2048k cache on a machine with 4 megs.
- Or 6.
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- See where it gets you.
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