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- From: lauusitalo@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi
- Subject: Re: STACKER question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.083450.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi>
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- Organization: Nokia Telecommunications.
- References: <1993Jan21.104210.17130@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> <1993Jan21.155244.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi> <1jmf90INN2uu@umbc4.umbc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 06:34:50 GMT
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- In article <1jmf90INN2uu@umbc4.umbc.edu>, marklc@umbc.edu (Mr. Mark L. Cohen) writes:
- >You are slightly mistaken. Himem.sys is only a memory manager. It has nothing
- >to do with the disk cache. In order to disable your disk cache, all you
- >need to do is to REM out the line that has to do with Smartdrive. Then you
- >will be all set.
- >
- Yep, I know it is memory manager but eliminating it is useful also because
- that makes PC almost "clean". No high memory, no smartdrv, almost nothing
- "unusual".
-
- And it works with dos >=3.xx. Not depending on where smartdrive is loaded.
-
-
- Lauri
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