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From: davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: VD0 help
Summary: why VD0: is still worthwhile
Message-ID: <1989Sep9.131343.1537@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 9 Sep 89 13:13:43 GMT
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Reply-To: davewt@ncoast.ORG (David Wright)
Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
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	VD0: is still worthwhile for one simple reason: It doesn't hog the memory
the way that RAD: does. Once you have RAD: mounted, the memory is gone, until
you remove it. With VD0:, it is only taken up while it is being used,
like RAM:. If you have dead space (space that WAS used, but is not used
now), you can run CleanRamDisk and it will return it to the system. I
use RAD: like a real ram disk, and use VD0: as a replacement for RAM:,
since it does about the same thing, but is recoverable...

				Dave