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- From: sci240s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Wey Jing HO)
- Subject: Re: Will cached HD controller speed up OS/2 ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.034821.1975@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- References: <hbc.722347928@munagin> <By3782.E9G@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 03:48:21 GMT
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- In <By3782.E9G@news.cso.uiuc.edu> nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nishith A. Patel) writes:
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- >hbc@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (hon bu chong) writes:
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- >> I would be appreciated if someone could provide me an advice..
- >> Actually I'm thinking of buying a cached hardDisk controller,
- >> hoping that it could reduce disk accesses under OS2, hence this
- >> will inprove the performance of the OS2.....
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- >I think you are right, it would. When you working with a lot of configuration
- >data, caching contollers can help quite a bit. In this case, all the attribute
- >searching and whatever else that WPS does can be sped up.
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- A recent popular pc magazine (PC Magazine?) commented that OSes such as OS/2
- and Unix will not benefit much from cached controller as would DOS/Windows. It
- also added that it will be more beneficial to give more RAM (system memory)
- for such OSes (OS/2 or Unix) as they "know" how to use those memory better.
- So, I think if you only want to run OS/2 or Unix most of the time, spending
- more money on system RAM will be more beneficial.
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- >Wey Jing Ho Tel: 61-3-573-2567 E-mail : sci240s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au<
- >Physics Dept., Monash University ( Caulfield Campus ), Melbourne, AUSTRALIA<
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