On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Anthony J. Albert wrote: > 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.
How about Windows CE? I think CE was designed for this sort of system. BasicLinux should be interesting, too. I'm guessing that you could have the hard drive as C:, and Ghost it to the CF drive as D:, then reverse drive settings/designations. That would give you a fast boot (C:) and large data capacity (D:). Boyd Ramsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
