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- From: hafting@Lise.Unit.NO (Helge Hafting)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: 5mb for os/2
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.155948.27884@ugle.unit.no>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 15:59:48 GMT
- References: <Bu6782.3sr@obiwan.uucp>
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
- Lines: 16
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- In article <Bu6782.3sr@obiwan.uucp>, wayne@obiwan.uucp (Wayne Willcox) writes:
- > I have a a 386 40mghrtz machine with four meg of ram
- > and os/2 run's really slow, I suspect this is because
- > of the ram disk since I don't have enough memory and
- > the hard drive run's virtually non stop. If I add 4 256k
- > dram to my board will this make much difference?
-
- I have run os/2 with 5MB, and it worked ok. But you will still get a lot of
- disk activity if you run more than 2-3 programs at once. I would not
- recommend using a ramdisk with only 5MB.
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