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From: BHB3@PSUVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: ram/rom "drives"
Message-ID: <89325.162902BHB3@PSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 21 Nov 89 21:29:02 GMT
References: <24211@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Penn State University
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In article <24211@cup.portal.com>, MJB@cup.portal.com (Martin J Brown-Jr) says:
>
If you want very fast storage such as a RAM disk, the best way to get it
with a 386 system is to put in as much RAM as your systems will take and
use a RAM disk program which uses extended memory such as the DOS VDISK
program.  Any 16 bit card based RAM disk system would be alot slower than
system board memory or a 32 bit card based memory.  From what I understand
extended memory based ram disks are much faster than the LIM 4.0 expanded ram
based ram disks.
                                              Brent H. Besler
>Now that various handheld computers are coming with ram/rom cards, are
>there ram/rom card drives available for my 386/20, soon to be UNIX w/SCSI,
>computer?
>                              - MJB -