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From: dgold@basso.actrix.co.nz (Dale Gold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Why not use RAD:? (Re:  ASDG VD0: DOES NOT WORK!)
Message-ID: <4602.tnews@basso.actrix.co.nz>
Date: 23 Oct 90 20:26:49 GMT
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Quoted from - xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan):
> I'm really curious at all this VD0: and VK0: traffic. I've been using
> the RAD: that Commodore supplies for eighteen months or so with no
> problems whatever [...]
> 
> Why are people still searching for a recoverable ram disk? "It's in
> there!" If there's something horribly wrong with RAD:, I'm not sure I
> want to know at this late date. 
> 
I'm surprised to hear of all the trouble people have had with VD0:, it's
always worked perfectly on my A1000. I prefer it to RAD: because it
allocates memory dynamically - a 1meg vd0: only uses 1meg if it's full,
and RAD: seems to occupy 1meg even if it's empty. I guess if you've got
6.5 megs to play around in, it's not a big deal. 

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