To:	allan <c91peral AT und DOT ida DOT liu DOT se>
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: Optimize your PC
Date:	Wed, 18 Jan 95 08:11:46 +0200
From:	"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>

>> You mean NCache, right?  
>
> No, I definitely don't. The program is called Norton Speedrive - 
> nothing else - I deliver it with PC's I sell... It may be a renamed

I never heard about this one.  Guess it's always something new out
there to learn...

> I have the latest Smartdrive (with MSDOS 6.22), and I have tested the
> one which comes with PC-DOS 6.3 also - they just don't compare...

How did you compare them?  Any particular application, any specific
benchmark programs?

> Speedrv is much more stable than Smartdrive, at least on my system...
> DOOM (an example...) crashed all the time with Smartdrive, works just
> fine with Speedrv.

My boy (and occasionally me, too) plays DOOM and DOOM II all the time
with SmartDrive--never saw any problem whatsoever.  I guess it's
something in the CMOS settings or the motherboard design.  But this
really belongs to rec.games.doom.XXX...

> When it comes to caching CDROM drives it's absolutely fantastic -
> my 2x behaves like a 3-3.5x with most applications. (Norton
> says that a speedup of 4000% is possible...)

SmartDrive which comes with DOS 6.x does CD-ROM caching also,
although I don't use this (I use the MSCDEX caching instead).

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