On Fri, 17 May 2002 03:28:18 +0100GMT, Laurie L Proud wrote: > For starters I have run "speedcheck" as supplied with 1.7r3 from the > Arachne directory on the harddisk with the normal configuration for > this internet machine:
> Apricot LS Pro 486DX-4 100Mhz 36Mb of total RAM and W95 (:-() > with a 5Mb ramdisk in extended memory. > Total time = 21 seconds > Copying "speedcheck" into the ramdrive and running it gives an > identical time. > I therefore don't seem to be able to get this DX4 out of 2nd gear ! FIRST gear ! ;-) Using Sam's 33Mhz '386 mark of 11 secs on the ramdisk (PCDOS 3.3) YOU should be able to achieve better than *4* seconds ! First thing to do: Get rid of Win95. <G> But maybe you should test first by booting to another OS from a floppy. - Clarence Verge - Back to using Arachne V1.62 ....
