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From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How to start an autobooting program without erasing memory?
Message-ID: <1186@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 10 Jul 89 09:19:31 GMT
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Reply-To: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu.UUCP (Jim Wright)
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In article <2236@astroatc.UUCP> brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
| 
| Sorry, can't be done.  COMMAND.COM needs to start up all the programs because
| it sets aside pointers as to what memory is allocated for what.  Everything
| has to start from scratch when booting.  That goes for any computer.
							 ^^^
Wrong-o.  The Amiga supports a recoverable RAM drive.  Whether this is
possible under MSDOS, I don't know.  I haven't seen anything like it.
The most likely approach seems to me to try using extended/expanded memory.

-- 
Jim Wright
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu