On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 14:11:35 -0400, Roger Turk wrote:
> Sam,
> Before I dropped the 586/133 in my computer, it was a 486DX/33 with 8 MB RAM,
> and it *was* slow! Currently it is running Arachne, albeit 1.48 and at a
> reasonable speed. (Using Smartdrive, 1 MB, and a 3 MB RAMDISK for Arachne's
> CACHE, CACHE.IDX, and TEMP.)
>> From what I remember, the 486SX was merely a 486DX whose floating point
> arithmetic section failed to pass or was disabled. If that is correct, then
> you should be able to drop an Evergreen 586/133 into the socket and have
> improved performance.
The Evergreen chips are very expensive. I can buy an old Pentium 133
motherboard for less than the price of an Evergreen chip.
I've discovered that the reason why this 486sx 33 runs so slow is that
the motherboard has no cache RAM. My 386sx has cache RAM and it runs
Arachne much faster than the 486 in question.
> As far as tweaking the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files, what are they like
> now, and what do you want to do? (I *do* have M$DOS 5.0 manuals.)
I had explained in my post that I wanted to optimize it for running Arachne
on the HDD, not a RAM disk. We have lots of power outages in my neck of
the woods. BTW, I have since located my DOS 5.00 manuals and have begun
some experimentation with trying to tweak the system. I would still
appreciate your sending to me some suggested AUTOEXEC.BATs and CONFIG.SYSes
that work well for you. I can't send to you at this time my configs. The
computer that I'm working on is far away from my current location.
All the best,
Sam Heywood
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