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To: Samir who wrote (167)	1/9/1998 4:40:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2120

Sam; If you get a copy of it, when it installs it sets up an icon in your controal panel, you can click there and it will let you browse and map any disk directory to ram, like windows\temp any disk cache, windows\recent..windows\spool..any thing that goes to disk that you think you have enough memory to handel, you can map to ram. Then the IO time and disk access time is no longer slowing you down. It gives me heartburn to see people talking about cpu speed and such, that dont know how to soup up a set. I can internet with an old 486 and a fast modem, and a vidio accelerator card, and lots of memory ; maping disk r/w to ram.. and out run a PII with it just using the standard way win95 sets itself up. Bench marks won't tell you your doing it, but put the two side by side and hook up to the internet and load a java apple thats feeding you six live indexes and a live chart, and the 486 will not only beat the PII, but likley keep running when the PII crashes. Vidio speed has the built in limit of you monitors refresh capasity..cpu speed can not do you any good in that area if you already have the monitor maxed out. ( and you can max it out with an old 386 )..cpu speed won't speed up your hard drive access time, ( the big bottle neck )..so if you have a fast disk controler, the next big gain is to map as much disk access as you can to memory. This has been the case for years even before win95 came along. The average computer in use, really uses just a fration of the raw computing power the cpu can put out, ..but it does a lot of writing to the vidio , r/w to the hard drive, were I/O cards and disk access speeds count the most and cpu speed has little effect, and is sitting almost idle , like it's a hurry up and wait situation, even if I/O wait is set to zero, the cpu can't chew on any thng till the HD gives it, but if it can get it from memory..that's another story, however win95 won't let that happen the way it should, even smartdrv wants to write out to disk, even if you set it to do it at idle time.."what idle time" if your getting a constant java feed. Jim