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- From: jliukkon@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Juha-Matti Liukkonen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: Why DOS 5.0 for Windows 3.1 ???
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.174315.15704@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 16 Aug 92 17:43:15 GMT
- References: <80082@bcsaic.boeing.com> <1992Aug14.175049.1691@rei.com> <sauron.713912919@femto.engr.mun.ca> <1992Aug15.220853.13034@udel.edu>
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- Organization: University of Helsinki
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- In <1992Aug15.220853.13034@udel.edu> duzan@braindamaged.cis.udel.edu (Gary D. Duzan) writes:
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- >In article <sauron.713912919@femto.engr.mun.ca> sauron@nano.engr.mun.ca (Patrick Ryan) writes:
- >=>If your use something like QEMM with it as well, the savings go a bit
- >=>higher. I can get 610464 bytes of memory free, and that's with
- >=>soundcard drivers, mouse driver, ANSI... I'm impressed.
-
- 623K conventional free, 140K upper memory free and you name it, it's
- there!
-
- > Just make sure that you don't load SMARTDRV.EXE high. When I first
- >set up 3.1 it was crashing quite regularly, which rather annoyed me since
- >it was supposed to be more stable than 3.0. I traced the problem to
- >SMARTDRV and 3.1 has behaved itself pretty well since then. (I'm still
- >looking forward to poking around with OS/2 2.0, but that is another
- >story. :-)
-
- If I remember correctly, Smartdrv should be left alone to determine
- whether it loads itself high or not (ie. no LOADHIGH commands with it).
- When I used it, it did load itself high. I don't use it anymore, though,
- because IMO it's a bit awkward (read: behaves oddly and I don't just
- trust it) compared to Norton cache or PC-Cache (to name an example).
-
- --
- Juha Liukkonen, aka jliukkon@cc.helsinki.fi
- University of Helsinki, Dept. of Paranormal Investigations
- "Trust me, I know what I'm doing." - Sledge Hammer
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