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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: Speeding up Windows
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- References: <1992Aug28.222436.7248@wam.umd.edu> <Sep.2.08.09.51.1992.3949@ratt.rutgers.edu> <1992Sep3.040823.9415@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 03:26:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep3.040823.9415@wam.umd.edu> macole@wam.umd.edu (Mario A. Cole) writes:
- >In article <Sep.2.08.09.51.1992.3949@ratt.rutgers.edu> andrewsr@ratt.rutgers.edu (Rich Andrews) writes:
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- >>Wouldn't putting Windows on a stacker drive speed up performance?
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- >Nope...Stacker compresses (or tries to) everything...whatever is on the stacker
- >drive will have too be decompressed first...hence, any disk i/o operations will
- >take a tad bit longer. Of course, if you have files that are loaded in all at
- >once..then you can save space by keeping them on the stacker drive. I keep all
- >of my windows apps on the stacker drive...except for windows itself and Norton
- >Desktop.
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- Not strictly true. Depends where the bottleneck is. In the hardware
- newsgroup people were posting that Stacker dramatically speeded up
- some systems. The ones that improved were those with fast CPUs...
- apparently anything with a 25 MHz DX and above, maybe even SX machines.
- The bottleneck turned out to be disk transfer rates. The machines
- have CPU cycles to spare, apparently.
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- Of course, one must make sure the permanent swap file remains unstacked..
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- >>What is wrong with HIMEM.SYS?
- >
- >Nothing...I just hate using MS supplied utils...it's liking using Paintbrush or
- >Write instead of using PhotoStyler or MS Word. I got hold of QEMM and I like
- >it very much...of course, only after months of taming it.
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- I've found that unless you are loading tons of stuff high and using
- EMS there isn't too much of a difference... except himem usually requires
- no taming.
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