On (09 Dec 94) Bill Grimsley wrote to Keith Richardson...



 BG> Keith, at 16:15 on Thu, Dec 08 1994, you wrote to Paul Edwards ...



 PE> I've set it up with a 4 meg disk cache.  I've also got a 4 meg FAT 

 PE> cache and a 2 meg CDROM cache and a 1 meg VDISK, so total extravagence 

 PE> = 4+4+2+1 = 11 meg, out of 20 meg, leaving 9 meg for programs + OS.  

 PE> That should be enough.



 KR> there is something fundamentally weird about using more memory 

 KR> for cache than actual use.



 BG> I can almost understand the 4Mb HPFS cache, but 4Mb for FAT ??  Even IBM

 BG> themselves recommend no more than 512Kb for the FAT cache (Paul must still

 BG> have fond memories of the inefficient smartdrv, I think).  And a RAM disk

 BG> under OS/2 (which has no 640Kb limit) ??   Now I've heard everything!  |-)



conspicuous consumption. maybe we have a yuppie, albeit a weird one,

amongst us   (-8



                        Keith



... It aint incorrect, just different.



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