Dear folks, Finally picked up a 16MB CompactFlash card, so that I could do some additional testing.
I set up the CF card on an CF-to-IDE adaptor, installed MS-DOS 6.22, and then installed Windows 3.1 to the CF card. I turned off virtual memory entirely during the installation process, and did not install the help files, to keep the installed size of Windows down. The computer being used is has an AMD386DX40 processor with 128KB of cache memory, 8MB of DRAM on 30-pin SIMMs, and all I/O done via an all- in-one IDE, floppy, serial port, parallel port ISA card, with a serial mouse. Video via Trident 1MB ISA card. System video setting was left at 640x480x16, and no additional drivers were loaded beyond the Windows defaults. I then added the statement: "win" to the last line of the AUTOEXEC.BAT file, and turned off the computer. Time from power-on to Windows up and fully functional, using CF: _11.0 seconds_, as best I could time it. Time from power-on to Windows up and fully functional, using 212MB Seagate hard drive, of same vintage as computer, same configuration: _50 seconds_ Additionally, programs like Write, File Manager, etc. loaded much more quickly, with File Manager hardly seeming to take any time at all. If I can come across a 128MB or 256MB CompactFlash device, I think I might undertake setting up Win95 the same way, and testing, but I expect very interesting results from it. Anthony J. Albert =========================================================== Anthony J. Albert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems and Software Support Specialist Postmaster Computer Services - University of Maine, Presque Isle "I gots yer four basic food groups right here: bacon, beans, whiskey, and lard!" - Cookie, from Disney's _Atlantis_ To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
