🚀 go-pugleaf

r...@dmu.ac.uk (robert logan) wrote:
] Chris "Strunoph" Norman (cbno...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
] : Doug Marien <sl...@landshark.micro.umn.edu> wrote:
] : >If you have enough memory, like 16meg or more, load RAMDRIVE.SYS
] : >in your CONFIG.SYS file with the options:
] : >device=c:\dos\ramdrive.sys 12288 512 1024
] : A far more intelligent option is to install a disk cache.  
] Hopefully Chris means a software cache. A hardware cache
] is a far less intelligent solution. With the money
] you spend on a disk cache you could buy more ram and
] configure as you like.

Well, personally *I* kind of *LIKE* my hardware cache.  I have an EISA
32-bit caching IDE controller, and (a) it's blindingly fast, (b) I don't
have to burn conventional memory on loading software caches, (c) cache
conflicts are a thing of the past, and (d) I have one cache that works
for both DOS and Linux.


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