Date:	Thu, 3 Nov 1994 10:33:01 -0500 (EST)
From:	Ed Phillips <flaregun AT udel DOT edu>
To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc:	kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: C++ misc suggestions / queries

On Thu, 3 Nov 1994, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> >> I use Lightning/CD disk caching software (which works great with DJGPP)
> >> and it could use some more upper memory.  
> >
> > I use plain SMARTDRV.EXE.
> 
> SmartDrive caches CD-ROMs only beginning from DOS 6.x.  So if the
> original poster uses DOS 5.0, he can't do this.
> 

  Yeah... I use DOS 5.0.  I wanted to speed up the CD access,... and 
Lighting/CD certainly does that.  LCD caches ALL drives.  DJGPP compiles are 
< 15 seconds for most of my small programs.  Once the compiler/progs and 
libs are cached, it rarely ever reads from the hard disk.  :-)  LCD only 
uses 3M of EMS/XMS (whatever it decides is better for your configuration) 
maximum and can loan it out to other apps that need it at the time.  It's 
worth $50-60 just to make DJGPP cruise along!!!  (Of course, Windows runs 
really nice too...)

	Ed

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