Re: HardPressed/AutoArk...

[philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)]

In article <fmlinC5AJJo.14n@netcom.com> fmlin@netcom.com (Frank M. Lin) writes:
>Stacker on the PC clones works *really* transparently... as far as I can tell.
>AutoDoubler on the Mac, and AutoArk for the ][gs all SLOW down the machine
>noticably.  I'm wondering how well HardPress can do...

I must take issue with your statement of Stacker working transparently. This
may be true if you get it to run, figure out the memory conflicts, etc...I,
for one, am tired of utilities in DOS/Windows which lead me to spend the
night fixing up my network. That is one nice thing about DOS6.0 . At last
these things are built into the OS. 
>
>Reading from magazine/journals, Stacker actually makes booting into Windows
>slightly faster.  Because it takes fewer time to load compressed stuff.  I
>guess this is due to fast processors.  I think the ][gs definetly needs 
>some hardware to go with HP/AA.

This is certainly not my experience. In any case booting into Windows is not
a time consuming thing if you have a reasonably fast system. Now if you
are saying that a 2meg hard drive loads faster than a 4meg one then I suppose
that is true. My experience is that once you double the hard drive you
start filling it up with more stuff.
 
Hopefully HardPress will work like AutoDoubler on the Mac.
 
-- 
Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
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