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echo: aust_avtech
to: Neil Skepper
from: Niels Petersen
date: 1996-05-05 14:15:18
subject: Windows 95

> Win95 has a sort of dynamic swap file. You can set the size yourself,
 > but the book advises to let the OS look after it.
 > Theoretically it can expand to the size of your hard drive, but it'd run
 > like an a snail on sedatives.

It's a pain.  I'm slow but not that slow ;-)

 >  NP> On all machines I have setup, the _only_ time there is disc
 >  NP> activity, is when a file is actually read or written, which is how
 >  NP> it _should_ be.

 > Sounds fair. I'll keep this in mind as a change back to Win 3.1 is on
 > the cards for me 8-)

I have a friend who did just that until he can get afford 2 gig drive, 20
meg of Ram, a pentium motherboard and replacements for all his Vesa cards
:-(

Cheers
Niels Petersen

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