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Ton
My problem with MS for WinDoze is that Equis let WinDoze control the
calculations or, and more likely, Equis has a different calculation
methodology in the new MS. It appears to me that, in MS for DOS, they would
use Speed Disk (or whatever it was called under DOS) if available as a
scratch area for calculations. In the WinDoze version, it appears that they
are using the hard disk for the scratch area (work area), and since I have
over 14 levels of indicators in my calculation, using a mechanical work area
versus an electronic work area makes a tremendous difference in performance
(not counting making the tower jump around the floor). :-)
I keep saying this (since I don't think MS' automatic indicator conversion
worked very well for me due to my naming conventions) but I will redo all of
my calculations in 6.52 and give it one fore try. It might be their
conversion program that messed everything up as opposed to the switch to a
DOS environment. That might explain why the DOS version 4.5 works so well
in a DOS window. I'll try to sit down and knock that out.
Regards
Guy
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of A.J. Maas
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 12:53 PM
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Faster MS Win 6.5 Explorations Using Cache???
And then you should try out the Scriptit program, which also runs in the
Windows
environment, but that will race through its script (like old DOS-batch).
One blink, and you'll have missed it (and the work is done).
Regards,
Ton Maas
ms-irb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dismiss the ".nospam" bit (including the dot) when replying.
----- Original Message -----
From: Guy Tann <grt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: woensdag 16 juni 1999 2:04
Subject: RE: Faster MS Win 6.5 Explorations Using Cache???
> That's why I'm still using MS for DOS with a virtual disk. What takes
> seconds on MS for DOS 4.5 takes 20 minutes of disk thrashing under MS for
> Windows.
>
> Regards
>
> Guy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Nicholas Kormanik
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 12:10 PM
> To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Faster MS Win 6.5 Explorations Using Cache???
>
>
> I, too, regularly rue the extreme bottleneck in disk activity when doing
> explorations, feeling that with optimal cache the time taken should be
> one-tenth, or less.
>
> But, alas, I know of no way to tell Windows 98 to increase cache size. I
so
> miss the old days of Norton disk cache.
>
> Is there a way?? Is there a third-party cache program that we can
> completely trust?
>
> My system has 128 megs of RAM, and generally most of it sits idly, while
my
> hard disk grinds away.
>
> Thanks,
> Nicholas
>
>
>
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