Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 09:24:00 +0900
From: Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To: c91peral AT und DOT ida DOT liu DOT se
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Optimize your PC: is this an oops?

   Yes, and avoid SmartDrive... Use Norton Speedisk instead. I haven't

"Norton NCache", I suppose you mean?

   timed it, but it sure feels like twice as fast as Smartdrive 
   (not to mention CDROM-drives...), and it is twice as stable as

What version of SmartDrive are you using?  The version included with
IBM's DOS 5.0 show such speedup, but it is nonfeatured, doesn't do
writeback, etc.  There are lots of versions of SmartDrive around.  I
dislike MicroSquish as much as the next guy, but do be specific about
versions when the program has shown as much improvement as SD has over
the last year or so.
    --Steve