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STACKER COMPRESSION

    26-Nov-91 00:45:42
Fm: Kevin Pashuk 70244,2222
To: Jake Richter [Panacea] 75130,2705
I feel I should jump into the thread a this point. I'm in the process of doing a review of Stacker for CADalyst. I doubled the eensy-weenie 40 Mb drive on my Everex Tempo notebook and have subjected the poor thing to all the kinds of abuse (Speed Disk, Caching, Norton TS, etc.) that I would assume an unsuspecting novice ( You know the kind… If a little knowledge is dangerous, some people are lethal.) could throw at it. I am running ACAD rel 11 (I have 5 Mb RAM and a CoPro) and FoxPro 2.0 doing some serious database development. Aside from a small decrease in access speed, I can say that in the 6 months I have been testing it in this application, I have not had a Stacker related crash. (People who program database API's can cause some phenomenal crashing!) I would not recommend you slow down a speedy hard drive in a desktop, but in the portable computing environment, it is indeed a God Send.