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Article #67Re: DOOM - READ - RAMDRIVE.SYS
From: kru... Roger A. Krupski
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 03:44
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 03:44
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> With the money > you spend on a disk cache you could buy more ram and > configure as you like. > Please save us your moronic input. I disagree with you. If you have a _hardware_ disk cache (i.e. a caching disk controller) then ALL your disk data is funneled through the rather slow AT bus (8 mhz, 12 if you are lucky). A _software_ cache is in ram, running at full system speed (i.e. 33 mhz). So, a SOFTWARE cache usually works better (faster) and also you can easily re-configure your setup (steal memory from the cache for other uses) simply by editing the CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT line that loads the cache. A hardware cache controller's ram is usually not available to your system unless you physically swap SIMM modules. Hardly a moronic concept (in my opinion) ;-) Roger -- Roger A. Krupski .-- .- ..--- ... -.- --- State University of New York at Buffalo Internet: kru...@acsu.buffalo.edu
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!rutgers!att-out!att-in!csn!ub!acsu.buffalo.edu!krupski From: kru...@acsu.buffalo.edu (Roger A. Krupski) Newsgroups: alt.games.doom Subject: Re: DOOM - READ - RAMDRIVE.SYS Message-ID: <CJLp2u.5y1@acsu.buffalo.edu> Date: 14 Jan 94 03:44:54 GMT References: <2gd3qk$2p8@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu> <CJ9x9G.DAz@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <1994Jan8.003408.5577@dmu.ac.uk> <pigdogCJJJ08.Hsz@netcom.com> Sender: nn...@acsu.buffalo.edu Organization: UB Lines: 26 Nntp-Posting-Host: autarch-14.acsu.buffalo.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit