To: allan <c91peral AT und DOT ida DOT liu DOT se>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Optimize your PC 
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 95 08:33:36 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>

> Yes, and avoid SmartDrive... Use Norton Speedisk instead. I haven't
> timed it, but it sure feels like twice as fast as Smartdrive 

You mean NCache, right?  You probably used a very old SmartDrive,
because latest versions (one which comes with Win 3.1 and another
from DOS 6.2) have about the same performance as NCache, incuding
delayed-write (aka write-back) feature which older versions didn't
have.  On the other hand, NCache of yore (about the same time when
DOS 5.0 came) was *exceedingly* buggy: would crash your machine
now and then.  I suppose that's why we now have NCache2 with the
newer versions of Norton Utilities.

Note that I don't want to start religious war over this issue (not
on this list, at least), just to bring you updated info.