burton@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Philip Burton) (09/06/90)
I am "about" to upgrade to a 386 from my 6-year old AT, which has 5 MB of RAM (256 Kb DRAM chips) on 3 different adapter cards. I expect to get a 33 MHz 386, and I understand why and how these RAM cards would drag down the performance of my system. Thus, I expect to get 4 MB of motherboard memory with my new system. Reading the W3 docs, I find that I can waste lots of disk space with a swap file to get virtual memory. What I'd rather do is use the extra 5 MB as "slow" memory, for a disk cache, print spooler, etc. (Anyone else remember the LCS way back in the IBM/360 days??) To make this work, I'd have to have a way of "initializing" Windows to load only disk cache and print spooler in the slow memory, leaving the fast memory for applications. Is this practical? --Phil Burton--