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- From: hill@netcom.com (Tom Hill)
- Subject: Re: WindowsNT: something like smartdrive?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.071339.18474@netcom.com>
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- References: <1993Jan4.171030.345@csghsg5a.bitnet> <1993Jan5.012609.18294@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 07:13:39 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.012609.18294@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de> hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter) writes:
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- >>As long as you run DOS/Windows it seems to be better to have a
- >>uncached-controller and using smartdrive instead.
- >
- >Don't trust any benchmarks here. They always give better results for
- >software caches, since they read from memory, that does not go through
- >your ISA bus.
- >
-
- Um, but IMHO they give better results for your applications, too, for exactly
- the same reason...
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- Tom Hill
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