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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: "Arthur" <arfa AT clara DOT net>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 09:15:53 +0000
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Subject: Re: This is not a problem but...
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"Arthur" <arfa AT clara DOT net> wrote:
> Granted, but I'm talking about files a few megabytes in size. The only cache
> faster than decompression is onboard cache, of which I have only 512k. There
> is also the cache Windows uses when loading, but I don't believe that that's
> a couple of megabytes in size.

Windows uses all the free memory as cache in fact after a few minutes W95 
starts to use non-free memory swapping the applications to disk. So W95 could 
end using ALL the available memory as cache if you run a small application that
uses disk too much (like a CD recorder).

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