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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: 5mb for os/2
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.155651.1100@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 15:56:51 GMT
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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?
-
- Yes yes yes! And get rid of the RAM disk until you get more than 8MB.
- The memory is better spent for disk cache.
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