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From: rmm@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (richard.m.maniscalco)
Subject: Re: Share your optimization tips
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 16:32:24 GMT
In article <1pm61pINNp45@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (John Bodnar) writes:
>According to e_p@unl.edu (edgar pearlstein):
>> Here's another one:
>>
>> 5. My computer arrived with the following statement in its
>> config.sys file: STACKS = 9,256. I changed it to
>> STACKS = 8,128 and saved 1296 bytes. Maybe it could be
>> lowered even more, but I haven't tried it.
>
>Exactly.
>
>Regardless of what Microsoft says, I have set STACKS=0,0 on every single
>computer I have installed Windows on from a simple 386SX-16 up to 486DX-50
>with EISA motherboards, NDI Volante TIGA adapters, Intel Ethernet Express
>cards, and caching SCSI controllers from DPT and DTC.
>
>Not a problem yet, and the extra 2K+ gained means a lot with conventional
>memory gobbling programs like OrCAD and Tango PCB.
>--
>John Bodnar : "While we liked developing Windows
>The University of Texas at Austin : applications, we never inhaled."
>Internet: jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu :
>UUCP: ....!cs.utexas!ut-ccwf!jbodnar : -- Borland CEO Philippe Kahn
I remember reading somewhere (QEMM manual, I think) that
STACK=9,256 is needed only for the Windows SETUP program.
Otherwise, use STACK=0,0.
Rich
dift1010@iro.umontreal.ca