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- SPEEDER 1.1
- System Speedup Utility
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- Public Domain
- Thomas G Hanlin III
- Benjamin Diss
- 06/27/88
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- This utility changes the rate at which the DMA refreshes your RAM.
- It allows you to speed up your system by lowering the refresh rate,
- thereby giving the CPU more time to work. You can also return the refresh
- rate to the old value, in order to resume normal speed.
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- You can expect a speed increase of around 5% on the average PC. This
- will differ on other machines. The speed increase isn't vast, but every
- little bit counts.
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- WARNING! This speedup may not work on all machines. I don't
- guarantee that it will work on your computer. Work on a few nonessential
- programs for a while after you first try SPEEDER, so you can see if it
- works properly on your PC. I will take no responsibility for any problems
- it may cause you. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! (I've had no trouble, though)
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- The SPEEDER utility is based on "DMA Control on the PC" by Larry
- Fogg, in Micro Cornucopia of Sept/Oct 1987, p.26.
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- Examples:
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- SPEEDER + speeds up your machine
- SPEEDER - returns you to normal speed
- SPEEDER gives brief information about the program
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- 06/27/88 - Benjamin Diss
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- For additional information on memory refresh see PC Magazine Vol 7 No 13
- dated July 1988.
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- I made a couple of changes to this program after reading this issue. The
- program now sets the refresh a little lower than before. This results in
- a refresh rate of 1% as reported by PC Tech Journals ATPERF. The program
- also now reports wheather refresh is being increased or decreased.
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- Benjamin Diss
- Micro Computer Consultant
- 5800 Oakwood Dr.
- Suite 1B
- Lisle, IL 60532
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