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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Why disable shadow RAM?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.012324.16119@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Sep11.202523.10922@ornl.gov>
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- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 01:23:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep11.202523.10922@ornl.gov> lio@ornl.gov (MILLION D L) writes:
- >I read in the FAQ an offhand remark that one should disable shadow RAM
- >for better OS/2 performance. This was not explained, however, and I
- >am still wondering why I should do this. If the object is simply to
- >retrieve more memory for OS/2, that doesn't work in my machine--that
- >384K remains unavailable whether shadow RAM is disabled or not. If
- >there is some other reason for disabling it, I'd sure like to hear it.
-
- I may have amended that remark. Your intuition is right -- disable it
- if it frees up RAM, leave it alone if the RAM would otherwise be
- wasted.
-
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