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On Sat, 7 Jun 1997 10:58:01 +0200 (MEST), Christoph Eyrich wrote: >On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Paul Khoury wrote: > >> >BTW, if you're not using data compression, you can save lots of bytes in >> >W95 by using it. >> >> Compression also slows down the system. This may or may not be important to you, depending on your >> applications. > >This is not necessarily true any longer. I don't know about W95 but >there are OSs which seem to run some jobs faster with compression. >This seems plausible because on fast machines it is the transfer of >data over the bus which takes times. The CPU is simply faster (if >the OS allows it to work properly...) and this is the place where >the extracting of compressed data takes place. > True. I've never had compression before, but on my brother's machine running 95, he said his drives are sort of slow. I don't know about others like OS/2 Warp or Windows NT, but I would be interested to hear anyone's experiances on those OSes with compression. Paul Regards, Paul Khoury pkhoury@earthlink.net